GPL flag for x.org drivers

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Tue May 15 09:35:51 PDT 2007


> X.Org gives you much more freedom than Linux with the GPL. 


That rather depends upon your definition of freedom 8)

X had an MIT like license before Linux even existed, and you don't go
around changing licenses on projects where there is a long standing
commitment, culture and set of understandings. (Ask XFree86..)




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