Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 16:23:50 +0200 From: Mathieu Segaud <segaud@cetp.ipsl.fr> To: Ulisse Bemer <ulibemer@fastwebnet.it> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: FYI Message-ID: <409A4A76.5B8CEA88@cetp.ipsl.fr> References: <20040506110926.GA57750@xor.obsecurity.org> <409A3B95.A004E0CF@cetp.ipsl.fr> <002601c43374$776a61e0$23916401@mypc>
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Ulisse Bemer wrote: > maybe I'm dumb, but... > I really don't understand why the new XFree86 license would be "non-free", like Stallman and the GNU > people are asserting. not only GNU people, even some obsd people did so. > > Seriously, I think that people like the XFree86 folks, who are willing to give away the results of > their work just in exchange for proper *credits* - and so, without the annoying restrictions of the > GNU-sponsored GPL license, which claims to be "free" but it *forces* everybody to give away *their* > source code as well - must be supported, and not boycotted. I wasn't speaking about boycotting it but proposing the other alternative for people who does not feel, hem ....comfortable with it ;) > > I think that all Open Source software should be supported: the fewer restrictions, the better. You > can't boycott someone because he uses a license that has *fewer* restrictions than yours, that seems > to me as just plain arrogance. :) > > Moreover, the new XFree86 License is not applied to the external libraries - that is, you can run > GLPed software on top of XFree86 4.4.0 without problems. > > Anyway... I'm sorry if i went OT in a technical list. And thanks for bringing us the *free* XFree86. > :-) > > regards, > ulisse bemer > -- Mathieu Segaud
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