Re: License furor

Paul Vojta <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.xfree86.forum
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 07:05:47PM -0400, William M. Quarles wrote:
> Paul Vojta wrote:
> >The xf86 1.1 license adds a
> >new type of condition that has not been used in open source licenses
> >before, and I see nothing wrong with them not wanting to be bound by
> >that condition.
> 
> Nothing new, as someone already pointed out, XFree86 1.1 License is very 
> similar to the Apache 1.1 License.
> 
> http://www.apache.org/LICENSE-1.1
> 
> Peace,
> William

Well, yes, very similar, but there is a key difference, as pointed out
by Vincent Stemen:

	http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/forum/2004-May/004493.html

The archives don't show any responses to that message by defenders of the
XF86 1.1 license.

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