On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 15:20:08 -0600 >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: debian-legal@lists.debian.org, debian-x@lists.debian.org, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >Subject: Re: FWD from XFree86 forum: GPL-incompatible license > >Ummmm... > >In general I have some difficulty with the argument > >XFree doesn't use ABC, we have been using XYZ for years. >Therefore ABC doesn't matter to anyone anymore.
If there are people for which ABC matters, perhaps they will cleanroom reimplement the problematic code and supply a cleanly licensed alternative. -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat