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XFree86 4.4 Released

Posted by michael on from the license-problems-unnecessarily-hard dept.

puriots0 writes "XFree86 version 4.4 is finally out! Grab it while it's still hot, if you don't mind the recent licensing changes... And if you don't care about the license, but the maintainers of your distribution do, this might be the only way to get it for the moment." The XFree86 people seem very eager to claim that the new license is nothing bad; see their FAQ. However, people who have reviewed it, such as RMS and Branden Robinson, think differently. It looks as if the XFree86 people have a short timespan to either rethink their license changes or be dropped from every/almost every Linux distribution in favor of a forked codebase.

2 of 531 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Licensing by ISayWeOnlyToBePolite · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Are you trying to be funny with that firefox sig.? lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/debian-devel-20 0402/msg01877.html I'm not laughing.

  2. what about microwindows/nanogui by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    microwindows/nanogui can be setup to be binary compatible with xlib.