Re: about your new 1.1 license

At 09:26 AM 3/3/2004 +0000, you wrote:
> > Notice that since the modified licence will not be applied to the client
> > side library, the GPL-compatibility issue is moot.
>
>That is complete rubbish.
>
>Sure, it covers most common cases, and will satisfy the majority of
>users, but in this day and age, the GPL is treated by many as a kind
>of 'default' license to put their software under, simply because it is
>so effective and widely used.  Maybe years ago the situation would
>have been different, but in 2004, there is a huge archive of GPL'ed
>code, and it is growing.  The license change of XFree86 _will_ reduce
>the ability to reuse code from other GPL'ed projects, in XFree86.
>Even if there is no practical need to do so at the moment, it is a
>dubious route to go down, in my opinion.
>
>Please, don't spread mis-information by claiming that the
>GPL-compatibility issue is moot - it's _not_.

i can see as a kernel man you feel that way man but it's
a different space.

mark.