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[Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>]

On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 02:44, Ladislav Hagara 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 read these posts but didn't fully understand the significance, until today 
when I found a brief interview with Richard Stallman.

http://lwn.net/Articles/72053/ and
http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=297

This is a real problem. I don't think it matters if we are building from 
source or not. It appears that because their new license conflicts with the 
GPL, then linking GPL applications to their code violates the GPL.
I think it means  in good faith we shouldn't distribute the updated version 
of 
our spell. Every person that uses it will be violating the GPL . 

Hamish

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