From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 6 17:07:32 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 571CA16A4CE for ; Thu, 6 May 2004 17:07:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from invasion.mail.pas.earthlink.net (invasion.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.254]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E957843D45 for ; Thu, 6 May 2004 17:07:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from richardcoleman@mindspring.com) Received: from c-24-99-11-212.atl.client2.attbi.com ([24.99.11.212] helo=mindspring.com) by invasion.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 3.36 #4) id 1BLstg-0002AP-00; Thu, 06 May 2004 17:07:24 -0700 Message-ID: <409AD33A.9030002@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 20:07:22 -0400 From: Richard Coleman Organization: Critical Magic, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ulisse Bemer References: <20040506110926.GA57750@xor.obsecurity.org> <409A3B95.A004E0CF@cetp.ipsl.fr> <002601c43374$776a61e0$23916401@mypc> In-Reply-To: <002601c43374$776a61e0$23916401@mypc> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: 1ee258965991efcb0865379cdb43356e5e89bb4777695beb702e37df12b9c9efbfb923251bc32712910cbcbb4ae7a445350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c cc: x11@freebsd.org cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: FYI X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: richardcoleman@mindspring.com List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 00:07:32 -0000 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. > > 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 I'm not sure why the XFree folks felt the need to change the license. But on the other hand, I'm not sure why the GNU/Linux/OpenBSD folks think it's such a big deal. My understanding is that the new XFree license is similar to the old, original BSD license (correct me if I'm wrong). But the new Xorg stuff looks pretty interesting, so it will most likely be a non-issue in the end. Richard Coleman richardcoleman@mindspring.com