XFree86 Licences [was: Re: [plug] Debian VS Mandrake]

[James Devenish]

Hi,

In message <1086345231.3794.22.camel at localhost>
on Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 06:33:51PM +0800, Brock Woolf wrote:
> 4.4...has a semi[-proprietary] [licence])

In message <1086347263.23332.4.camel at rasputin.localnet>
on Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 07:07:44PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> Err... while XFree86 4.4's [licence] isn't at all popular and for good
> reason...XFree86 4.4's [licence] is definitely more restrictive than
> that of 4.3 and earlier, though.

When this was discussed in Feb, the only notable difference I could see
between 1.0 and 1.1 was clause 3 (which looks like a weak form of the
original BSD advertising clause): 'The end-user documentation included
with the redistribution, if any, must include the following
acknowledgment: "This product includes software developed by The XFree86
Project, Inc (http://www.xfree86.org/) and its contributors", in the
same place and form as other third-party acknowledgments. Alternately,
this acknowledgment may appear in the software itself, in the same form
and location as other such third-party acknowledgments.' Is that all?