Re: XFree86 License Change

From: Aaron Matteson (fedora_at_cryptosystem.us)
Date: 02/18/04

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Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 20:51:26 -0800

    Preston became daring and sent these 0.9K bytes,
    > El Martes, 17 de Febrero de 2004 07:32 AM, David Balazic escribi?:
    > > Note that the old licence is valid until 4.4.0RC2 , only 4.4.0RC3 has the
    > > new licence.
    > But, basically the XFree will contnue being Open Source and free, whats the
    > difference? I cant underestand the problem yet.

    from what i have been able to gather from the couple minutes i have
    looked at this, the new license seems to demand permission for any
    distribution and subdistribution. There seems to be a few otehr problems
    hinting but i need to read the license further. What a pain in the ass. 

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