glib dependency for the X Server

Daniel Stone daniel at freedesktop.org
Mon Apr 3 00:25:54 PDT 2006


On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 09:08:41AM +0200, Matthieu Herrb wrote:
> No, LGPL is not the same as the X/MIT or BSD license. It has more 
> constraints.
> 
> O.Org has firmly stated in the past that it would keep its code under 
> the X/MIT license, so this is unacceptable.

This is not X.Org's code, it's ancillary.  You could make the argument
that there's no usable MIT-licensed compiler, either, so X's dependency
on same is also unacceptable.
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