Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 18:00:13 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPL vs. BSD Message-ID: <36C20F7D.31EB94D2@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902101408350.32009-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
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Jason C. Wells wrote: > > TOG owns X since MIT gave it to them. TOG establishes the licensing. > Xfree86 uses what TOG puts out. As long as Xfree86 is happy with the > licensing it will remain under the MIT license which is pretty BSDish. > It is not exactly equal, in the FSF site they recommend the MIT licnese over the BSD license for some obscure reason Mr. Stallman didn't care to explain. As I said before, I saw an attempt (GRX) to re-release some fonts from the X11R3 or X11R4 under GPL, but it seemed like the license didn't permit this. > I suppose someone _could_ release their own GPLed X. In fact... > > I hereby announce the release of GPL X. Download it from Xfree86 but don't > use it commercially. You can download the license from the FSF. If you > have any questions contact someone else. This is truly a great advance for > free softare. :) </quip> > > Catchya Later, | Give me UNIX or give me a typewriter. > Jason Wells | http://www.freebsd.org/ GPL'd X11 ??? I also prefer a typewriter :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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