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  • From: Paul <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
  • To: sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] license of xfree86
  • Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 12:19:34 -0500

I dissagree about people violating the GPL. People can do what they want
in their own homes. The problems crop up when you want to distribute
binaries. Since the only binaries we distribute are on the ISO, and the
doesn't include X, we have no problems.

Now whether we want to make a stand based on philisophical objections,
that is another matter.

On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 08:56, 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 .
>
> Hamish
>
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