From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 7 03:02:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA28752 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 03:02:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA28744 for ; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 03:02:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA12660; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 19:32:24 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id TAA07873; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 19:32:23 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980407193223.59144@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 19:32:23 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: feedback@xfree86.org, FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Changes to X11 licensing with X11R6.4 References: <19980403132554.14962@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <19980403132554.14962@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au>; from David Dawes on Fri, Apr 03, 1998 at 01:25:54PM +1000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org (following up to -chat on the FreeBSD side) On Fri, 3 April 1998 at 13:25:54 +1000, David Dawes wrote: > First, I apologise for the cross post, and for posting at all about this > subject to these lists, but I'm looking for some feedback on this issue > from the FreeBSD community. Please respect the Reply-To line, and don't > pursue the discussion about this on the FreeBSD lists. > > As some of you are probably aware, The Open Group (TOG) has recently > announced new licensing conditions to go with their new X11R6.4 release. > This change means that XFree86 needs to make some decisions about our > future direction. We have some basic info on our home page > (http://www.xfree86.org/), and links to the new licensing information on > TOG's web site. If you have anything to say about this in the XFree86 > context, please take a look at that info, and send you comments to > feedback@xfree86.org. Well, that got a lot of response, didn't it? I've taken a look at the FAQ. I couldn't be bothered to read the legalese, so I may have missed something important. From what I see, it all hinges on the definition of commercial use. If they mean companies who sell an X add-on package for their product for > $100, I think it's entirely reasonable that they should get their $0.25 or so royalty. If they mean companies like WC that just put it on the CD-ROM with no value added, I don't think that's reasonable. But from what I see, they're restricting this to the former case. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message