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[Eric Schabell <eschabell AT sourcemage.org>]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 02:33:10PM +0000, Tony Smith wrote:
> On Friday 20 February 2004 1:56 pm, Hamish Greig wrote:
> > 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 .
> 
> I concur. I also believe that the more distro's that apply the pressure, 
> the 
> better. IMHO we should reject Xfree86 4.4 and be vocal about it.
> 
This seems to be the concensus, let us therefore make it so. 

Grimoire Lead,
Check in with the guru on this?

Thanks all.

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