FYI

[Mathieu Segaud]

Ulisse Bemer wrote:

> maybe I'm dumb, but...
> I really don't understand why the new XFree86 license would be "non-free", like Stallman and the GNU
> people are asserting.

not only GNU people, even some obsd people did so.

>
> Seriously, I think that people like the XFree86 folks, who are willing to give away the results of
> their work just in exchange for proper *credits* - and so, without the annoying restrictions of the
> GNU-sponsored GPL license, which claims to be "free" but it *forces* everybody to give away *their*
> source code as well - must be supported, and not boycotted.

I wasn't speaking about boycotting it but proposing the other alternative for people who does not feel,
hem ....comfortable with it ;)

>
> I think that all Open Source software should be supported:  the fewer restrictions, the better. You
> can't boycott someone because he uses a license that has *fewer* restrictions than yours, that seems
> to me as just plain arrogance.

:)


>
> Moreover, the new XFree86 License is not applied to the external libraries  - that is, you can run
> GLPed software on top of XFree86 4.4.0 without problems.
>
> Anyway... I'm sorry if i went OT in a technical list. And thanks for bringing us the *free* XFree86.
> :-)
>
> regards,
> ulisse bemer
>

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Mathieu Segaud