Michael Schreckenbauer <grimlog@xxxxxx> writes: > 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. Would you mind posting your ebuild somewhere so others can use it? > Imho the only reason for gentoo doing this, is a political one :-( I must have missed that, and I thought Gentoo looked like a reasonable distribution. I guess I'll just stay with Slackware if they are the only ones that base choices on the usefulness of software rather than personal opinions about the licenses. Am I the only one who remembers when distributions used to include Netscape Navigator? -- Måns Rullgård mru@xxxxxx _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
