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NetBSD Imports XFree86 4.4.0

Posted by michael on from the eh dept.

jschauma writes "It appears that, unlike many other Open Source projects, NetBSD did not find any serious problems with the much-debated license change of XFree86 4.4.0: it was just imported into the tree."

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  1. Re:Duh by Brandybuck · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Actually you wouldn't expect any of the Linux distros to have a problem either, since the XFree86 libraries are NOT under this new license. But I guess it's just too much fun waging holy wars...

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    Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
  2. Re:Explain by kundor · · Score: 5, Insightful
    In the words of David Dawes, they "deferred" applying the license to the client libraries. They still intend to eventually.

    Beyond that, it's indicative of an attitude and motivations that simply don't mesh well with what the community expects.

    I certainly wouldn't mind seeing freedesktop.org replace the xfree86 project.

  3. Re:Explain by Mekanix · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hmm... let's see if I got this right.

    RMS is mad at the XFree86-people because they want some credits?

    But's it's ok for RMS to force everyone and their mother to call linux for GNU/linux?

  4. Re:Duh by rsidd · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Add to that an Apache fork either.

    Apache fork? Why? The old Apache licences weren't GPL-compatible either. If that bothers you, you need to write a new webserver from scratch, not fork.