License issues

Posted Apr 7, 2004 17:03 UTC (Wed) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054)
In reply to: X11R6.7 Release Notes by eru
Parent article: X.Org Foundation releases X Window System X11R6.7

Maybe the stuff that was dropped didn't have an acceptable license? I
know the new license that everyone hated started appearing in September.

License issues

Posted Apr 7, 2004 17:41 UTC (Wed) by allesfresser (guest, #216) [Link]

A lot of the stuff that's mentioned as being dropped was also dropped in the XFree86 4.4 release (like PEX, etc.), mostly because it was obsolete. Only a few files in the XFree86 codebase had the widely disliked new license.

On the other hand, there's other updates in this new x.org release that (I believe) are not in XF86 4.4 (the freetype, xft, etc. updates for example). I could be wrong about that though, as it's from memory (of compiling the XF86 4.3.99.90[23] releases) several weeks ago.