Re: Re: Fwd:XFree4.4 no more GPL?

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Am Dienstag, 2. März 2004 17:49 schrieb Måns Rullgård:
> Frédéric L. W. Meunier <1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> >>> As always, people can use another distribution, the binaries
> >>> from http://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.4.0/binaries/ , or
> >>> compile it.
> >>
> >> You mean there is a distribution that actually plans on
> >> shipping 4.4.0?  ;o)
> >
> > Actually, according to
> > ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/COPYRIGHT.TXT
> > , I guess Slackware will:
>
> I suppose Gentoo won't have any problems either, since they are not
> actually shipping the files.  Besides, I don't think they have any
> silly political reasons stopping them.

Gentoo announced, that it will not supply ebuilds for XFree86 with the new 
license. There's actually a long disussion in gentoo-user mailing list about 
this. I'm going to write my own ebuild now. Imho the only reason for gentoo 
doing this, is a political one :-(

Michael

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