On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 09:34:57AM -0500, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote: > >On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Alan Swanson wrote: > >> On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 13:37, Dieter N�tzel wrote: >> > Someone preparing a merge? >> >> To which release? >> >> The official 4.4 release that Red Hat, SUSE, Debian, Mandrake, Gentoo >> and most other distributions are not touching with a barge pole? > >The client libraries are still distributed under the old license, so there >is no problem linking GPLed libraries or apps to the 4.4 libraries. Which >means there is no longer a reason for those distributions not to include >4.4 any more.
If GPL compatibility is a concern for the DRI project, you will need to take a careful look at the SGI "Free Software B" licence that applies to the GLX code. It is not GPL compatible. The FSF doesn't even consider it Free Software (in spite of its name). Personally I think that the GLX licence not qualifying as Free Software (as defined by the FSF) is a serious problem, and one that needs to be addressed. If my recollection is correct, and Brian can probably correct me if I'm wrong, the GLX licence was understood at the time it was hammered out to be compatible with the Open Source Definition. However, I don't see any specific mention of it at www.opensource.org. David ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id56&alloc_id438&op=click -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
