Debian 2, What will it Have
hi, i must say that debian has come a long way in the last two years- in fact so has linux. it has gotten to the point that linux is now being taken very seriously by corporate america. one thing that i have noticed after my latest visit to jr is that there is a great variety of linux distributions available, now i am starting to see the suse one, good book comes with it. i did have a question about Xfree, it is my understanding that x will not be free after a new version? allan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian 2, What will it Have
i did have a question about Xfree, it is my understanding that x will not be free after a new version? allan X is going to split. There will be Open Group's X11R6.(=4) which you can still obtain free but can not distribute for money without buying a License and there will be XFree86 which will remain GPL code for you to I am sorry, but I think that my correction is important: XFree86 will remain under old BSD-like license, NOT GPL. Making XFree86 GPL'ed would cause a majot disaster for Linux. Thanks. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian 2, What will it Have
On Sun, Apr 12, 1998 at 05:42:18PM -0400, Alex Yukhimets wrote: i did have a question about Xfree, it is my understanding that x will not be free after a new version? X is going to split. There will be Open Group's X11R6.(=4) which you can still obtain free but can not distribute for money without buying a License and there will be XFree86 which will remain GPL code for you to I am sorry, but I think that my correction is important: XFree86 will remain under old BSD-like license, NOT GPL. Making XFree86 GPL'ed would cause a majot disaster for Linux. Actually I think your correction is irrelevant. The point is that XFree86 will remain free, which was what the original poster was asking; the details of which license are not needed. And I don't think the continued anti-GPL doom and gloom on this list helps anybody; please leave it in gnu.misc.discuss. thanks, hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian 2, What will it Have
I am sorry, but I think that my correction is important: XFree86 will remain under old BSD-like license, NOT GPL. Making XFree86 GPL'ed would cause a majot disaster for Linux. Actually I think your correction is irrelevant. The point is that XFree86 will remain free, which was what the original poster was asking; the details of which license are not needed. And I don't think the continued anti-GPL doom and gloom on this list helps anybody; please leave it in gnu.misc.discuss. Maybe I belong to a minority but I found the correction necessary and relevant. Actually it's only a three-line response and if you don't like it you can ignore it, but it WAS a correction, and it means that something did need to be corrected. jabberwock ###By lack of understanding they remained sane. (George Orwell)### -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
