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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] No XFree86 w/ new license
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 13:29:37
Message-Id: 200402261429.33596.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] No XFree86 w/ new license by Svyatogor
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4 On Thursday 26 February 2004 14:28, Svyatogor wrote:
5 > Hmm, this all issue with GPL seems o be quite strange. Let's take as
6 > an example Gaim, which is under GPL license. The have a Windows build,
7 > thus linking against proprietary libraries (Win32 API). In this case
8 > it is ok, but with XFree it seems to cause problems :/
9
10 There is no requirement for users of the Win32 API's to acknowledge
11 microsoft. If wanted, one can even build against open source header
12 files. This all means that there are no aditional restrictions imposed
13 upon people extending the source.
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15 Paul
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