XFree86 4.4 Released

Posted by michael on Sunday February 29, 2004 @07:48AM 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.

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Re:From the FAQ by lintux · 2004-02-29 10:48 · Score: 0, Redundant

That hosts file existed in Win9x already. Just the presence of this single file doesn't mean the codebase was "stolen".

Gee, Windows has a filesystem with directories, I think they copied SysVFS. Maybe SCO can try to sue Microsoft? ;-))

So anyway, Windows 2000 having the BSD IP stack is a well known thing. I'm not going to say "fact" because I'm not 100% sure, just 99%.