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From: Svyatogor <svyatogor@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] No XFree86 w/ new license
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 13:18:09
Message-Id: 403DF481.9090904@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] No XFree86 w/ new license by Brian Jackson
1 Hmm, this all issue with GPL seems o be quite strange. Let's take as an
2 example Gaim, which is under GPL license. The have a Windows build, thus
3 linking against proprietary libraries (Win32 API). In this case it is
4 ok, but with XFree it seems to cause problems :/
5
6 >On Tuesday 17 February 2004 12:17, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
7 >
8 >We won't be adding versions of XFree86 with the 1.1 license [1] to the
9 >tree, so don't be surprised when 4.3.99.903 doesn't show up with the new
10 >license.
11 >
12 >I won't elaborate on the reasons because it's been discussed quite
13 >thoroughly in other forums.
14
15
16 Wkr,
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18 Sergey Kuleshov <svyatogor@g.o>
19 Home Page: http://dev.gentoo.org/~sergey
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] No XFree86 w/ new license Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] No XFree86 w/ new license Patrick Kursawe <phosphan@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] No XFree86 w/ new license Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] No XFree86 w/ new license Toby Dickenson <tdickenson@××××××××××××××××××××××××××××.uk>