Re: xfree86 license

[Jacob Meuser <jakemsr@jakemsr.com>]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 11:40:45AM +1030, Brett Lymn wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 11:28:05AM -0500, Christopher Hylarides wrote:
> > <http://www.netbsd.org/Misc/about.html>
> > 
> > >
> > >in the first paragraph.
> > > 
> > >
> > So?  Look on all of the openbsd platform pages.  They all say they've 
> > taken code from free/netbsd.
> > 
> 
> So.  We get back to the original point.  How is that license
> materially different to the XFree86 one?  Why is compliance with the
> free/netbsd license conditions different to the same for xfree?  This
> is what was originally asked and has not been adequately (or even
> attempted to be) answered.

It's simple.  The license became more restrictive, while the project
is trying to have less restrictions on the code they (re)distribute.

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