Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 16:14:37 +0200 From: "Ulisse Bemer" <ulibemer@fastwebnet.it> To: <matt@minas-morgul.org>, "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FYI Message-ID: <002601c43374$776a61e0$23916401@mypc> References: <20040506110926.GA57750@xor.obsecurity.org> <409A3B95.A004E0CF@cetp.ipsl.fr>
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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. 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 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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mathieu Segaud" <segaud@cetp.ipsl.fr> To: "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: <x11@freebsd.org> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 3:20 PM Subject: Re: FYI > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > I've been hacking on XFree86 4.4.0 in my spare time..so far I have > > imake-4 and -libraries updated, and -servers almost done. > > Great ! > Does this work apply easily to X.org 6.7 ? As of now that XFree86 License is > non-free, I suppose the X.org alternative should be proposed to users in case > they want to test and use new Xorg 6.7 release. > > -- > Mathieu Segaud > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-x11@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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