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

[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 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.
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>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
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>>From: "Fulvio Valente" <fulvio at val2003.fsnet.co.uk>
>>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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