Re: License issues

[mark kandianis <linux-man@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 06:20 AM 3/5/2004 +0100, you wrote:
> Hello,
>
> As director of an Open Source advocating company, I feel the urge to 
> respond to recent license changes. I'm sure you received lots of email 
> regarding the license change, so let me get straight to the point:
>
> Does the benefit of changing the license, supercede the disadvantages of 
> exclusion of 4.4.0 in several major Linux and BSD UNIX distributors?
>
> I think every Open Source developer deserves respect and credit for their 
> work, but doesn't this rather arrogant attitude take some of that respect 
> away? Many people see you as not true devout Open Source contributors. Is 
> the change to the new license worth all this fuss?
>
> If yes, what will happen now? Many distributors refuse to incorporate non 
> GPL-compatible code into their releases. There are many plans to fork and 
> build a real open source (thus GPL-compatible) implementation of X11R6.


so you mean that only a GPL-compatible X implementation is foss?
don't think so.  and can i have a link to your advocate site?  i like
to click ;-)

mark.



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