[plug] Y-Windows project back in gear

chris.griffin at swiftdsl.com.au chris.griffin at swiftdsl.com.au
Thu Feb 19 12:00:11 WST 2004


Is someone having trouble with the "Free" part of XFree86?



> 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?
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