[forum] [XFree86] Announcement: Modification to the base XFree86(TM) license.

[Sven Luther]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 09:46:03AM -0500, georgina wrote:
> 
> >Well, you are, i think, best placed to say what the real problems are,
> >since the rest of the world did never really get a followup of the
> >dispute that happened last year, nor of the fork that followed.
> 
> You know that's a funny comment.  I was over at the X.org site reading their mail haphazardly and one of the great comments came from Stu Anderson ala the XC, XF86 core, Metrolink and more recently netSweng and X.org, where he said, and sadly I paraphrase, That this would have the effect of us forking ourselves!
> 
> And why not?  Everyone else is doing it?  Why shouldn't we have some fun?  
> 
> Seems to me Sven you're advocating that everyone else either fork us or sue us and we should sit back and sigh....oh you funny man!

Georgina. I have in the past been a contributor to the XFree86 Project,
albeit a small one, and have not been very active this last year, but in
all these matters and disputes, my heart has always been with the
XFree86 Project. Read this very mailing list archive to convince you of
that.

Now, it is my belief that this licence change is an error. That it will
bring nothing to the XFree86 Project, that it will only portray the
XFree86 Project as the bad guys, and will be counter productive in the
long run. 

As said, i don't know the internal reason of why this happened, but i
can guess some. And since you like quotes, let me cite you another one,
one that was told me when refering to this (well from memory, so more or
less, but you will get the idea) : 

  If they (the XFree86 Project) wants to hang themselves, just let them

And followed with discussion on how to use the freedesktop.org xlibs
instead of the xfree86 ones.

Friendly,

Sven Luther