On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, David Dawes wrote: >The big deal you are all making about the GPL-incompatibility of >the modified XFree86 licence is really quite minor in comparison. >Lets face it: Your real objection is to giving credit to XFree86 >and its contributors. GPL-incompatibility and FUD about FSF-freeness(*) >of the modified licence is just a poor excuse.
You're very wrong there David. I believe that the XFree86 project very much deserves credit for any work that the project does do. I have every intention, when using XFree86 project written code, or supplied patches, etc. of giving the project full credit for anything that it has done regardless of whatever license is used. The credit is given not because of some license or legal requirement, but because it is just the proper and moral thing to do. If there is any code from XFree86 which I personally have used and did not give proper attribution for in the past, I definitely want to know about it, so that I can correct the problem. I am a strong believer in giving proper credit where it is due, however I also realize that human err can cause mistakes to happen sometimes. It is in everyone's best interest to work together in pointing out such cases of human error in a friendly way, so that everyone involved has proper credit given to them. -- Mike A. Harris _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
