Re: License issues

At 06:20 AM 3/5/2004 +0100, you wrote:
>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.


so you mean that only a GPL-compatible X implementation is foss?
don't think so.  and can i have a link to your advocate site?  i like
to click ;-)

mark.