XFree86 -- new license

Stefan Dirsch x-packagers@freedesktop.org
Fri, 20 Feb 2004 17:31:15 +0100


On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 04:09:36PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 12:01:28AM -0500, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> > What are you guys doing about the new license? Still planning to ship
> > 4.4.0, or the last stuff before the license change, or some other
> > alternative?
> > 
> > We've been putting out the snapshots, but I might hold off on RC3
> > pending some sort of consensus on the licensing.
> 
> Debian will not ship anything with the 1.1 license, full stop.

SuSE won't ship XFree86 4.4.0 under its current license as well.

Stefan

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