Xorg Now GPL??
Alan Cox
alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Wed Aug 27 15:17:50 PDT 2008
> > It would require rewriting a lot of code also, to become fully GPL,
> > but at start would be just accepting GPL code.
>
> becoming fully GPL would be the end X. The GPL is not a free license.
Depends how you define free.
More to the point
- X is a protocol definition not a program
People seem to be talking at cross purposes because nobody has said
'server' or 'libraries'. GPL X libraries would be very very questionable.
A GPL X server would really only hurt one chipset vendor who seems to
have a problem playing nice (assuming they didn't just ignore the licence)
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