Re: Re: about your new 1.1 license
Dr Andrew C Aitchison <[email protected]>
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On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Sven Luther wrote: > Maybe a X server under dual GPL/XFree whatever licence would be the end > to all problems here ? While it might be possible, I don't see how that would make anybody happy. One of the significant features of the GPL is that noone can modify a GPL package/project/product and make a binary only release. The distinguishing feature of the MIT/XFree86 whatever licence, is that you can do exactly that. As I understand it many unix vendors have used this feature to include an Xserver in their distributions for well over a decade. In this context, a dual licence might be possible, but everyone would feel that the principle of "their" licence was being lost. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [email protected] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna