in their own words
"Despite the imminent release of XFree86 version 4.4 and MandrakeSoft's prior aggressiveness with including new releases of major software packages, the version of XFree86 shipped is 4.3. The reason for this is the change that was made to the licensing of the XFree86 project beginning with verion 4.4 rc3. This new license contains an advertising clause that made it impossible to modify all the relevant documentation in time to meet the release schedule for 10.0 and is also considered by many to be incompatible with the GPL. Being conservative and including only the 4.3 release.
"
Martin Habets wrote:
Don't know about mandrake, but a lot of distributions are refusing to ship XFree 4.4 because it is on a new licence. If you realy want it, you may have to get it from www.xfree.org directly.
I've read about plans on a fork that would remain on the old licence, but have not checked if that has already happended.
Martin
From: "Fulvio Valente" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I've been searching for a XFree 4.4 rpm for a while with no success. If anyone can point me to
or make an rpm, I'll be eternally grateful
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