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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] license of xfree86
  • Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 10:43:32 +0100

On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 12:33:49AM -0600, Casey Harkins wrote:
>
> On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Hamish Greig wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 04:55, Eric Sandall wrote:
> > > The current xfree86-devel is okay, yes? If so, then we just leave it as
> > > is
> > > and not update it anymore. We don't even need to make a non-free X
> > > spell,
> > > as why should we support it? That'd add a little more pressure.
> > >
> > > -sandalle
> >
> > xfree86-devel in devel repo is WIP and has been updated to the version
> > that
> > has the new license.
> > Casey's point about client side libraries being excluded from the 1.1
> > license
> > and still only using 1.0 license is likely correct, but that is the point
> > everyone else is debating still so there must be some catch to it.
> >
>
> Agreed, that does seem to still be a point of debate.
>
> As Schabell pointed out, there seems to be a consensus here to reject the
> new license. So the current xfree86 and xfree86-devel spells should be
> frozen at their current versions. Perhaps there should be a news item
> posted on the website indicating the decision?
>
> If future versions of xfree86 are to be included, they should go into
> z-rejected, with new names. Maybe something along the lines of:

Definitely not z-rejected. xfree86 is still free software, just not GPL
compatible. I don't see us putting openssl, apache, xinetd, zope,
python, latex or php into z-rejected, all those use GPL incompatible
free software licenses.

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