XFree86 4.4: List of Rejecting Distributors Grows

XFree86 4.4: List of Rejecting Distributors Grows 682

Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 18, 2004 @09:53AM from the about-this-small-print dept.

Bootsy Collins writes "Yesterday, we discussed Mandrake's decision to revert their release-in-development from XFree86 version 4.4 back to version 4.3 because of issues with the new XFree86 license. To update this, the list of OS distributors opting out of XF86 Version 4.4, and future releases, based on licensing concerns continues to grow. While Fedora seems to be "preparing to support multiple X11 implementations", Red Hat has explicitly stated that they have no plans to ship XFree86 v4.4 under its current license. Also add to the growing list list Debian, Gentoo, and OpenBSD."

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Free Software (Score:4, Funny)

by Anarke_Incarnate ( 733529 ) writes: on Wednesday February 18, 2004 @09:54AM (#8315029)

Doesn't 'sell' well when it isn't free ;)

Kudos to the XFree86 project!!! (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday February 18, 2004 @10:12AM (#8315169)

Finally, they figured out how they can give us a decent/better/faster/nicer/stronger/cooler/less bloated X-Windows.

By ceasing to exist (practically)!

Re:Doesn't seem as ugly as TeX's license (Score:5, Funny)

by gowen ( 141411 ) writes: <gwowen@gmail.com> on Wednesday February 18, 2004 @10:19AM (#8315211) Homepage Journal

Well, the major difference is that TeX is as close to bug free as I expect I'll ever see a major piece of software to be.

And Don Knuth is a nice man, where as David Dawes went to the "Theo de Raadt Scholl Of Charm."

Debian rejects 4.4? Ha! (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday February 18, 2004 @10:24AM (#8315242)

Why don't we first concentrate on getting 4.3 into unstable, hmmm?

GNU/Linux (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday February 18, 2004 @10:37AM (#8315347)

Can you imagine RMS changing the GPL so that it would have a similar clause? So that GNU/Linux (or GNU/Whatever) would be manditory?

Re:Strange behaviour... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday February 18, 2004 @10:54AM (#8315495)

[no sarcasm]

That makes no sense and isn't relevant.

[/no sarcasm]

And to be really really save (Score:5, Funny)

by EachLennyAPenny ( 731871 ) writes: on Wednesday February 18, 2004 @10:59AM (#8315557) Homepage

Debian decided to stay with XFree86 4.2.1.
lenny@benny:~$ apt-cache show xfree86-common | grep Version Version: 4.2.1-16
/me awaiting discussions about XFree86 4.4 licenses not until 2006-02-18. ;)

Support vendors with non-sucking free drivers!! (Score:4, Funny)

by Curtman ( 556920 ) writes: on Wednesday February 18, 2004 @11:08AM (#8315660)

which branch does nvidia take

Ahhh, the song of the proprietary victim.

#include

Re:The Question (Score:5, Funny)

by Gothmolly ( 148874 ) writes: on Wednesday February 18, 2004 @11:15AM (#8315724)

The license says none of that kind. Did you even *read* the new license?

You're new here, aren't you?

Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)

by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) writes: on Wednesday February 18, 2004 @11:16AM (#8315737)

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Re:What is the issue? (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday February 18, 2004 @11:21AM (#8315789)

Simple there are hundreds of developers that have to be listed on every box that is sold. suse, mandrake They don't make boxes large enough to list every developer.

10 years my *ss (Score:5, Funny)

by A nonymous Coward ( 7548 ) * writes: on Wednesday February 18, 2004 @11:54AM (#8316108)

It sets it back to 4.3. That's hardly 10 years.

Your mother told you a million times not to exagerate.

Re:Debian rejects 4.4? Ha! (Score:3, Funny)

by mikeee ( 137160 ) writes: on Wednesday February 18, 2004 @01:29PM (#8317209)

Excellent. Debian will just stay on 4.3 until the copyrights on 4.4 expire, and move ahead then.

Maybe these guys should write a HOWTO (Score:5, Funny)

by Ryan Amos ( 16972 ) writes: on Wednesday February 18, 2004 @01:43PM (#8317354)

... on becoming irrelevant in the Linux community in 7 days. They did a hell of a job at it. :)

Re:Is the GPL license a problem? (Score:2, Funny)

by forlornhope ( 688722 ) writes: on Thursday February 19, 2004 @01:31AM (#8323716) Homepage

The latest 2.2 version of the Linux kernel is: 2.4.23
Umm don't you mean that the latest 2.4 version of the Linux kernel is: 2.4.23?

Yes, thats part of the joke. When 2.6 was originally released that was displayed on kernel.org because(I assume) the scripts that automatically generate that page didnt yet know about 2.6 and it claimed the latest 2.2 kernel was 2.4.23.

Get it now?

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Free Software (Score:4, Funny)

Kudos to the XFree86 project!!! (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Doesn't seem as ugly as TeX's license (Score:5, Funny)

Debian rejects 4.4? Ha! (Score:2, Funny)

GNU/Linux (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Strange behaviour... (Score:1, Funny)

And to be really really save (Score:5, Funny)

Support vendors with non-sucking free drivers!! (Score:4, Funny)

Re:The Question (Score:5, Funny)

Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)

Re:What is the issue? (Score:1, Funny)

10 years my *ss (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Debian rejects 4.4? Ha! (Score:3, Funny)

Maybe these guys should write a HOWTO (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Is the GPL license a problem? (Score:2, Funny)

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