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List:       openbsd-misc
Subject:    XFree86 license
From:       Theo de Raadt <deraadt () cvs ! openbsd ! org>
Date:       2004-02-16 21:27:47
Message-ID: 200402162127.i1GLRlbe007747 () cvs ! openbsd ! org
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Like other projects, we will not be incorporating new code from David
Dawes into the XFree86 codebase used in OpenBSD.  All such changes
have to be skipped, rewritten, or you can contact the XFree86 group
and place your own efforts to repair this damage.

I've tried to negotiate with David Dawes, and show him that his new
license is not acceptable, and he has been hostile and it has gone
nowhere.  He keeps insisting that his license is a standard BSD
licenses, yet, he won't use the same words that Berkeley used; if his
words were intended to be compatible to the Berkeley spirit then he
would be happy to use the same words; but he is not, and insists on
different words which a lot of the community has trouble with.

It seems like every 8 years or so we have to go through some period
where someone tries to take free software and makes it less free
because they don't feel they are getting enough credit.

This is final; if that license stands, there will be forking.

And if you don't like that, don't bother telling me.  Tell them.

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