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X11: Where do we go from here?
X11: Where do we go from here?
Posted Feb 26, 2004 15:09 UTC (Thu) by branden (subscriber, #7029)Parent article: X11: Where do we go from here?
...according to longtime X developer Keith Packard, project leader David Dawes first checked in code under the license last September and updated the list of XFree86 licenses to include the license without any prior notice.
I don't think this is correct. I believe the first use of the new license was the application of the auto-configuration code of the XFree86 X server, applied to XFree86 upstream CVS on 8 October. (It also appears as entry 486 in the CHANGELOG file.) The SGML source for XFree86's LICENSE file, however, was not updated to include the X-Oz license (now also known as the XFree86 1.1 license) until 12 December.
Also, on the Debian legal mailing list, I have suggested that the X-Oz license might not be a Free Software/Open Source license after all. I invite people to read my analysis and draw their own conclusions.
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