XFree86 gone from Fedora Core? WHY!?

William M. Quarles quarlewm at jmu.edu
Fri May 21 04:13:42 UTC 2004


James Jones wrote:
> 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.

Actually, you just made me think of something: perhaps X.org's
republishing* of the XFree86 4.4.0rc2 code was what prompted the license
change.

*(borderline stealing, a.k.a. nearly violating the "You can do what you
like with the code except claim you wrote it" clause)

Peace,
William





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