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New Ok,
Isn't the licencing issue political rather than developmental? It's a serious question. Looks to me like the next version is getting built, and I assume that the developers are doing that. It's not obvious to me who is pushing the licencing change. Admittedly, I don't understand the hierarchy of that group.
New No
The advertising clause in the new XFree86 licence is incompatible with clause 6 of the GPL; there is some GPL code in the XFree86 code base, and rather more than "some" in your average Linux distribution. EVEN IF you disregarded clause 6, you'd have to change enormous amounts of code to comply with the new advertising clause in the XFree86 licence.


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New We are talking past one another
I understand that there are developmental implications in the new licence. I agree that is a developmental issue.
I was wondering if the inclusion of the new licence and its new wording was mandated by the developers of XFree86 or if this was a result of the political shakedown that got rid of the "core group". At the time, I got the impression that they were just getting rid of noisy unessential people. In retrospect, could this have been a move to hijack the project?
In any event, it looks like the project is going to fork. Pity.
New Not a pity
Should have happened years ago.

For example, the XFree86 build process is not dissimilar to standing up in a hammock, and should have been dealt with a long time ago. It hasn't. A fork can only be good for everyone, once the initial pain is over.

And yes, I missed your point. Sorry about that.

I do agree that the recent organisational changes brought this current situation about, because they allowed a man (Dawes) to take charge who I think should not have been placed in that position.


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     So much for XFree86 4.4 - (admin) - (7)
         how ironic -NT - (deSitter)
         I recall a thread about the X11 core group disbanding - (hnick) - (5)
             That was a political change, not a developmental one. -NT - (pwhysall) - (4)
                 Ok, - (hnick) - (3)
                     No - (pwhysall) - (2)
                         We are talking past one another - (hnick) - (1)
                             Not a pity - (pwhysall)

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