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  • From: Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] license of xfree86
  • Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 00:56:24 +1100

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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