[plug] Debian VS Mandrake

[Craig Ringer]

On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 18:33, Brock Woolf wrote:

> * Features XFree4.3 not 4.4 (4.4 is not true to the GPL and has a semi
> proprietory license)

Err... while XFree86 4.4's license isn't at all popular and for good
reason, I'm not convinced that "semi-proprietary" is the right term.
It's rather like the BSD license with advertising clause, and is in many
ways less restrictive than the GPL. 

XFree86 4.4's license is definitely more restrictive than that of 4.3
and earlier, though. Unfortunately, it's also apparently
GPL-incompatible, which is a major problem.

Rather than sticking with XFree86 4.3, perhaps you might want to keep an
eye out for distros that include X.org's X-Server ( http://www.x.org/ ).

Craig Ringer