Subject: Re: XFree86 4.4.0
To: Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@pps.jussieu.fr>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: tech-x11
Date: 03/12/2004 17:03:19
Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@pps.jussieu.fr> writes:
> An obnoxious advertising clause was added to software that has been
> around for years with no such clause.  This addition was done by David
> Dawes without consulting with the plain XFree86 contributors (not on
> the BoD).
>
> (I also find the NetBSD advertising clause to be obnoxious.  However,
> as I am not the author of any of the NetBSD code, I do not feel I have
> the right to complain.)

It would be rather odd for us to refuse to accept a license that is no
worse than our own "obnoxious" one, eh?

I wouldn't mind if XFree went back to their old license, but I also
don't mind the new one. It really isn't our fight.

Perry