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Couple points...
Couple points...
Posted Feb 27, 2004 16:21 UTC (Fri) by frazier (subscriber, #3060)In reply to: Couple points... by yodermk
Parent article: X11: Where do we go from here?
With both MySQL and XFree, the reasons distros aren't shipping with the new version is because the new licenses are incompatible with some of the other software included. The point is that the license of the client libraries are all that really matters.I think the real point is that if XF86 and MySQL hadn't changed licensing terms, the current license incompatibility breaks wouldn't have occured in the first place.
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Couple points...
Posted Feb 27, 2004 23:41 UTC (Fri) by yodermk (subscriber, #3803) [Link]
What license incompatibility breaks? Since XFree did apparently not change the license of its client libs, I don't think there are any!