XFree86 gone from Fedora Core? WHY!?

[William M. Quarles]

James Jones wrote:
> William M. Quarles wrote:
> 
>> Who made the not-very-bright decision of choosing X.org over XFree86 
>> for Fedora Core 2, and WHY?
>>
>> I also LOVE (sorry, I was sarcastic, DESPISE) this item in the Release 
>> Notes for FC 2:
>> "This release is a merger of the previous official X11R6 release, 
>> XFree86 4.4.0rc2, and additionally includes a number of updates"
>> 1. XFree86 4.4.0rc2 was not a release (hence the rc, "release candidate")
>> 2. It's not like XFree86 4.4 didn't come out.
>> 3. What is that made XFree86 no longer official?  Because some 
>> corporate bubbleheads decided to get together, swipe another 
>> organizations code and pose it as their own?  Please.
>>
> Perhaps you didn't notice the HUGE brouhaha over XFree86's licensing 
> change with XFree86 4.4; 4.4.0 rc2 was the last under the old license. 
> The new liccense is incompatible with GPL, and several Linux 
> distributions have decided to no longer use XFree86 because of that. The 
> ones that I recall are Red Hat/Fedora, Mandrake, and Gentoo.
> 
>    James Jones
> 
> 
I noticed, I still don't understand what the big deal is.  Let's keep 
everything on list though, OK?