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On Tuesday 17 February 2004 12:17, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> We won't be adding versions of XFree86 with the 1.1 license [1] to the |
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> tree, so don't be surprised when 4.3.99.903 doesn't show up with the new |
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> license. |
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> I won't elaborate on the reasons because it's been discussed quite |
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> thoroughly in other forums. |
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I hate to kick a dead horse, but... |
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I've read all the reasons and understand them and don't wish to dispute them, |
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but I do have one small question. What's the difference between this |
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situation and the GPL'd Linux kernel "linking" against functions in the |
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close-sourced BIOS, ACPI, APM, etc, etc? |
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Regards, |
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Jason Stubbs |
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