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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] license of xfree86
  • Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 13:17:14 -0800

Quoting Paul <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>:
> My /very/ limited understanding of the changes is that it doesn't really
> affect source distribution and if that's the case, should the changes
> bother us. Those posts say that people have written about GPL
> incompatabilities, but they don't give links or anything. Does anyone
> have any links to summaries of the changes?

What I garnered from the changes was that you have to credit the X project if
you use their code, much as the BSD license says, so it's not much of a change
that I can tell and it shouldn't bother us much as we're not even distributing
X, we just make it easy to compile from their code, so we /should/ be safe,
unlike the binary distros.

-sandalle

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