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

Jeff Garzik forum@xfree86.org
Mon, 02 Feb 2004 23:25:19 -0500


David Dawes wrote:
> If you or your employer distributes code from XFree86 and its
> contributors, then why would you have a problem acknowledging this
> assuming that you already make other third-party acknowledgements?

With all due respect, this is an invalid assumption.

Further, tracking acknowledgements for each open source project that 
wishes it costs real money.  Bits and bytes to you are printing and 
staff-resource costs to someone else.

	Jeff