[plug] Y-Windows project back in gear

sscott at iinet.net.au sscott at iinet.net.au
Thu Feb 19 09:22:43 WST 2004


Quoting Chris Caston <caston at arach.net.au>:

> Good morning list,
> 
> Mark Thomas has gracefully e-mailed me back to let me know that
> development on the Y-Windowing system (a replacement for X) has started
> again.
> 
> Please visit this page for more information:
> 
> http://www.y-windows.org/index.html

Was this prompted by XFree86's license mods? I saw that a lot of the major 
distros arent shipping 4.4 due to this.

What's the big deal anyway? Are people having problems with the notion that 
they cant claim they wrote XFree86, or is this a more technical licensing issue?



More information about the plug mailing list