XFree86 4.4.0 licensing issues
XFree86 4.4.0 licensing issues
- Subject: XFree86 4.4.0 licensing issues
- From: Dave Schroeder <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 09:55:19 -0600
As some of you may be aware, there have been some changes to the
license for Xfree86 4.4.0 that make it incompatible with the GPL. For
this reason, Mandrake, Gentoo, Red Hat, Debian, OpenBSD, and others
have all announced they will not be shipping XFree86 4.4 under its
current license.
I would like to strongly encourage Apple and any other Darwin/Mac OS X
XFree86 developers to please NOT commit any changes to XFree86 4.4.0
since the time the questionable license changes have gone into effect,
and until such time that the situation is resolved.
Note that I am making this request not because I really care about the
license personally, but if XFree86 is marginalized because of so many
*nix distributions' rejection of Xfree86 4.4 because of licensing
terms, Apple/Darwin continuing to use/support it will likely hurt us in
the long run. I would ask that Apple and Darwin/Mac OS X XFree86
developers please join the ranks of other major distributions in
holding off putting any more support behind Xfree86 4.4 until the
licensing situation is sorted out.
Red Hat:
http://freedesktop.org/pipermail/x-packagers/2004-February/000004.html
Debian:
http://freedesktop.org/pipermail/x-packagers/2004-February/000003.html
OpenBSD:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=107696705911864&w=2
Gentoo:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/15996
Mandrake:
http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/cooker/2004-02/msg04596.php
Regards,
Dave Schroeder | University of Wisconsin - Madison
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On Dec 24, 2003, at 7:23 PM, Torrey T. Lyons wrote:
Happy Holidays! Your present from the XFree86 Project is the second
release candidate of the next major release of XFree86. XFree86 4.4.0
RC2 passes many tests in the xtest suite that failed for RC1.
Additionally on Mac OS X, RC2 has full compatibility with quartz-wm in
all the languages it is localized in. RC1 only worked fully correctly
in English. The X server, XDarwin is localized in Dutch, French,
German, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and Korean. Testing
and bug reports are greatly appreciated. At this point in the release
cycle please report all bugs directly to email@hidden.
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