XFree86 License issues

Mon May 17 12:00:22 PDT 2004

On 03/07/04 13:43, Shawn Tayler wrote:

> Has anyone come across a user level explanation of the new XFree86 license
> and why all the distros are treating it like a lepor?

My reading of it is that the licensing change is very ego-centric.  They 
basically want all derrivitive works, *AND* anything that relies on X 
libraries to explicitly give credit to the XFree86 group.

So basically everything from KDE, to Mozilla, to gnucash would have to 
credit XFree86.

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