XFree86 gone from Fedora Core? WHY!?

Rodolfo J. Paiz rpaiz at simpaticus.com
Fri May 21 05:06:32 UTC 2004


At 22:29 5/20/2004, William M. Quarles wrote:
>The GPL incompatibility is irrelevant.
>[...]
>Everything can still be distributed in binary form without violating 
>anybody's license, since the the 1.1 license does not apply to the client 
>side libraries.

I do not understand you. The GPL requires that source be made available to 
anyone to whom you distribute binary. So how is it in any way relevant that 
"everything can still be distributed in binary form"?

Cheers,


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Rodolfo J. Paiz
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