William M. Quarles said: > Craig, > > I don't want an endless discussion, far from it. People have put forth > that the central issue here for why XFree86 is no longer part of Fedora > Core is the license change and some conduct of the now-disbanded core > team. If someone could just answer why the license is GPL incompatible > while the modified BSD license is not, that would be enough for me. Your Google seems to be broke. Here, borrow mine: "XFree86 4.4: List of Rejecting Distributors Grows" http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/18/131223 A thread started by RMS in the XFree86 mailing list http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/forum/2004-February/003974.html Debian's take http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2004/02/msg00780.html XFree86's FAQ, which states it isn't GPL compatible http://xfree86.org/legal/licenses.html "The 1.1 license is not GPL-compatible..." Can we please move on now? -- William Hooper
