Re: License issues

On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 07:50:01PM +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> DD> The licensing *policy* has not changed.  XFree86 has exercised the
> DD> same freedom of licensing choice that it has been offering its
> DD> contributors for some time.
> 
> David,
> 
> You keep ignoring one important objection to the licence change.
> 
> A lot of the XFree86 code has been contributed under the XFree86
> licence by people who were acting under the assumption that their code
> would remain under the old licence.

A, well, this is naturally a problem of the BSD kind of licences. Only
the GPL gives you a promise that the code will stay available in the
future :))

Friendly,

Sven Luther