Re: and yet another license complaint

At 01:41 PM 3/5/2004 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>like many others users and developers I would like to express my concern
>about the recent license change.
>
>The key issue is obviously that one cannot legally link GPL'ed software
>against some major parts of XFree anymore and I cannot think about a
>good reason for this situation.
>
>I'm not in the position to say which license is better in terms of "open
>source spirit" yet is is obvious that having incompatible licenses will
>cause more damage than benefit to the entire OSS community.
>
>On your frontpage you want users to tell their distros that "I want my
>XFree86 4.4., and I want it Now !!" - but what good should this be?
>A distro without a reasonable windowmanager? No KDE, no gnome, no
>windowmaker?


i think you should read the license faq and see that you are wrong in your
understanding of the license application issue.  go to 
http://www.xfree86.org/legal/licenses.html

regards,
mark.