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Couple points...
Couple points...
Posted Feb 26, 2004 9:50 UTC (Thu) by MathFox (subscriber, #6104)In reply to: Couple points... by yodermk
Parent article: X11: Where do we go from here?
The problem with the new X license is the "(obnoxious) advertising clause". I do remember logging in on a (commercial) Unix system and getting a screen-long list of "some parts (c) Copyright bla, bla, bla", just for the core OS. Imagine how long such a list could get for the average Linux distribution: "Provides 'The GIMP' (c)...", "Uses Qt technology, ...". Debian has (four thousand, six thousand) thousands of packages.
It is good to draw a line in the sand for the first such clause. Producing a MoLGPL (More or Less GPL) will not help this particular problem.
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Couple points...
Posted Feb 26, 2004 18:48 UTC (Thu) by qmark (guest, #11394) [Link]
Actually, the last time I ran dselect and did the update, it mentioned something about 14,200+ packages (in unstable).SRC