On Thursday, Jan 23, 2003, at 04:50 US/Central, Brendan Lane Larson wrote:
Furthermore to my worry about any part of X11 released by Apple under APSL (or some other restrictive license), there has been some controversy recently about the APSL, in addition to the DMCA. See that proclus of GNU-Darwin is dropping PPC support of GNU-Darwin:
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Thus, in line with what proclus has said about his policy in the context of the APSL needing a "revision", and thus no longer supporting or distributing any software which links to proprietary libraries, I'd like to know just what the heck is going on here with Apple's X11 and what Tenon's legacy is regarding the Hardware GL for Xfree86.If you want to know the specific problems GNU has with the APSL they are listed here:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/apsl.html
Besides, I don't think Apple put it's X11 under the APSL (I'm not sure they can re-license X11 like that). I downloaded the source (<http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/misc/>), there was no click thru to accept the APSL and I can't find any mention of the APSL in the files. The license list in the file xc-0.11/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/LICENSE does not list the APSL (not sure if Apple would be required to do so, although I assume they would as everyone else seems to have put theirs in the file. SGI's is rather long and obtuse.)
Kevin
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