License issues

Hello,

As director of an Open Source advocating company, I feel the urge to 
respond to recent license changes. I'm sure you received lots of email 
regarding the license change, so let me get straight to the point:

Does the benefit of changing the license, supercede the disadvantages of 
exclusion of 4.4.0 in several major Linux and BSD UNIX distributors?

I think every Open Source developer deserves respect and credit for 
their work, but doesn't this rather arrogant attitude take some of that 
respect away? Many people see you as not true devout Open Source 
contributors. Is the change to the new license worth all this fuss?

If yes, what will happen now? Many distributors refuse to incorporate 
non GPL-compatible code into their releases. There are many plans to 
fork and build a real open source (thus GPL-compatible) implementation 
of X11R6. Consequently, XFree86 might be made obsolete in time by such 
an implementation with growing community support, and the contributors 
of XFree86 did work "for nothing". While this is of course not exactly 
true since not all will abandon 4.4.0, this possible scenario truely 
raises the question whether this license change is worth all the things 
XFree86 will loose by it. Is it really that important?

Since i'm not subscribed, please direct any response to dominique (at) 
goldenelite (dot) com

Thank you,

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Dominique Boin
Golden Elite Computers
CEO