Re: [Scottish] Re: XFree86 4.4 RPMs for Mandrake 10.0? (Fulvio Valente)

2004-03-16 Thread Ben Thorp
It appears that the change that is causing all the controversy is that you are now allowed to distribute XFree86 in binary-only form, without the source code. This now makes in incompatible with the GPL, and most like not OSI approved either. The other main difference is the new 'Advertiser

Re: [Scottish] Re: XFree86 4.4 RPMs for Mandrake 10.0? (Fulvio Valente)

2004-03-16 Thread Andy Gilmour
Mandrake 10 is staying with 4.3 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