From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 6 07:31:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 894C616A4CE for ; Thu, 6 May 2004 07:31:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from balsa.cetp.ipsl.fr (balsa.cetp.ipsl.fr [193.52.172.32]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35E6243D46 for ; Thu, 6 May 2004 07:31:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from segaud@cetp.ipsl.fr) Received: from cetp.ipsl.fr (ginkgo-biloba.cetp.ipsl.fr [193.52.173.62]) by balsa.cetp.ipsl.fr (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA02755; Thu, 6 May 2004 16:31:39 +0200 (MET DST) Sender: Mathieu.Segaud@cetp.ipsl.fr Message-ID: <409A4A76.5B8CEA88@cetp.ipsl.fr> Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 16:23:50 +0200 From: Mathieu Segaud Organization: CETP Velizy X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ulisse Bemer References: <20040506110926.GA57750@xor.obsecurity.org> <409A3B95.A004E0CF@cetp.ipsl.fr> <002601c43374$776a61e0$23916401@mypc> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: x11@freebsd.org cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: FYI X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: matt@minas-morgul.org List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 14:31:54 -0000 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