Re: xfree86 license

[Darren Reed <avalon@caligula.anu.edu.au>]

In some mail from Damien Miller, sie said:
> 
> Darren Reed wrote:
> 
> > So what about the new license is unacceptable ?
> 
> The unilateral "give us credit" changes, at a time when the OpenBSD
> project is trying to remove advertising clauses wherever legally possible.

This is what I suspected.

So OpenBSD just wants to use the work of others and not give them
credit for it, if they don't have to, right ?

Having seen the raucus that erupts when anyone tries to create a
derivitive (or fork) of OpenBSD, you've got to wonder whether the
OpenBSD project is using double standards here.

> Obviously Dawes feels his changes are so important that they override
> the wishes of all those that come before him.

Btw, it's not Dawes, but "The XFree86 Project" (or the current
incarnation of it.)

Darren