Re: Mission statement and 1.1 license issues

Sven Luther <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.xfree86.forum
Message-ID <20040328101923.GA24303@lambda>
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 10:09:36AM +0100, John Bradford wrote:
> Quote from Alexander Terekhov <[email protected]>:
> > John Bradford wrote:
> > [...]
> > > Are you saying that you don't believe that the 1.1 license is
> > > incompatible with the GPL?
> > 
> > I say that XFree86 1.1 license is fully compatible with the GNU 
> > GPL. A compilation is NOT a derivative work. The distinction 
> > is quite obvious.
> 
> So, although I was not discussing mere compilations AT ALL, you post a
> claim that is obviously incorrect in the context of what was being
> discussed, and then proceed to try to justify it by changing the topic
> of conversation.

John, Alex is mostly a uninformed anti-GPL troll, just ignore him like
the rest of us do. I doubt he will goaway because of this though.

Friendly,

Sven Luther
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