Re: GPL-incompatible license
David Dawes <[email protected]>
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On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 04:01:10AM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: >As the Debian developers have noticed, the new Xfree86 license is >incompatible with the GPL. It has to do with the specific >requirements about including notices in manuals and documentation. >The incompatibility means that linking GPL-covered applications with >an Xlib that has this requirement would violate the GPL. I am glad that we have the opportunity to discuss the issues here. Am I correct in my understanding that the problem here is the possibility that under current, and also previous, XFree86 licensing policy, X libraries are permitted to contain code under a GPL-incompatible licence, and that by addressing the GPL-compatibility of the X library code we would also be addressing your concerns? David -- David Dawes developer/release engineer The XFree86 Project www.XFree86.org/~dawes