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- From: Casey Harkins <charkins AT upl.cs.wisc.edu>
- To: Eric Schabell <eschabell AT sourcemage.org>
- Cc: SourceMage GNU/Linux Discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] license of xfree86
- Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 19:54:06 -0600 (CST)
This is definitely an option, and would obviously make a statement about
the smgl community's opinion of the new license! However, this might be a
little too harsh. As far as I can tell, the license is still within the
boundaries of the open source definition. A simple copyright notice
could be displayed in CONFIGURE and DETAILS and I think we'd be
compliant. Either option works for me. :-)
-casey
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Eric Schabell wrote:
> > > The XFree86 Project, Inc. changed license of Xfree86 from 1.0 to 1.1
> > > http://www.xfree86.org/legal/licenses
> > > There are some problems with it. Developers of Linux distributions
> > > refuse to include new xfree86 to their distributions.
> > > For example Debian
> > > http://freedesktop.org/pipermail/x-packagers/2004-February/000003.html
> > > or RedHat
> > > http://freedesktop.org/pipermail/x-packagers/2004-February/000004.html
> > > or Mandrake
> > > http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/cooker/2004-02/msg04636.php
> > >
> > > - lace -
> > >
> > >
> > I think, that we must follow the path of Debian, because the project has
> > in some way
> > the same ideals and goals as Debian. But as always the last word is from
> > the project
> > leader and the main developers.
> > --
> You know the nice thing about our distro, is that we can offer this
> spell in z-rejected! ;-)
>
> License warning and all, leaving it up to users what they do with it.
>
> Thoughts?
>
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Re: [SM-Admin] Re: [SM-Discuss] license of xfree86
, (continued)
- Re: [SM-Admin] Re: [SM-Discuss] license of xfree86, Hamish Greig, 02/24/2004
- Re: [SM-Discuss] license of xfree86, Casey Harkins, 02/21/2004
- Re: [SM-Discuss] license of xfree86, Paul, 02/21/2004
- Re: [SM-Discuss] license of xfree86, Casey Harkins, 02/22/2004
- Re: [SM-Discuss] license of xfree86, Arwed von Merkatz, 02/21/2004
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Re: [SM-Discuss] license of xfree86,
Eric Schabell, 02/19/2004
- Re: [SM-Discuss] license of xfree86, Jose Bernardo Silva, 02/19/2004
- Re: [SM-Discuss] license of xfree86, Casey Harkins, 02/19/2004
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