[Discussioni] Licenza XFree86

[Leonardo Boselli]

Il 21 Feb 2004 alle 17:53 Daniele Pala immise in rete
> "So what is the problem with the new license? "The details of the
> requirement conflict with the GNU GPL," Stallman explained, "anyone
> linking GPL-covered applications with that XFree86 code would be
> violating the GPL." [Richard Stallmann]
> ma da
> http://www.xfree86.org/
> "The XFree86 Project, Inc is announcing that it has made a change to its
> license effective with the Third Release Candidate for the 4.4.0 series.
> This licence, like our previous, is fully free, (how do we know this? no
> less the world authority on free software, RMS, has said so) and it's
> the hope of the XFre86 Project to no longer allow non-free licences into
> our tree so we can become a fully free-software compliant X product."
> Mi sembrano dichiarazioni un po' contrastanti...

No, non sono contratatnto, lo stesso Stallm,an ha detto che la nuova 
licenza è "free" .
L'unico problema è che messe assiema GPL e XFree diventano 
incompatibili più o meno quanto sono incompatibili LGPL e Debian ...
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