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(See this [debian-devel post|http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1998/debian-devel-199804/msg00080.html]).
Also, [RMS] talks about this in his essay on CopyLeft vs non-CopyLeft (but still free) licenses at http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/x.html.
The XFree86 implementation of the [X11] protocol is the one that survived.
-In 2004, the XFree86 leadership [announced a change|http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/forum/2004-January/001892.html] to their license, introducing the documentation/advertising clause of the old-style [BSDLicense] (now removed from [BSD] software) to their upcoming XFree86 4.4 release. Because this is interpreted to be incompatible with [GPL]'d software, this release will not be included in
major Linux distributions:
-* [Mandrake are sticking with v 4.3 |http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/cooker/2004-02/msg04596.php]
-* Debian
are [looking towards the FreeDesktop
|http://lists
.debian
.org/debian-legal/2004/debian-legal-200402/msg00116.html
] fork of XFree86.
+In 2004, the XFree86 leadership [announced a change|http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/forum/2004-January/001892.html] to their license, introducing the documentation/advertising clause of the old-style [BSDLicense] (now removed from [BSD] software) to their upcoming XFree86 4.4 release. Because this is interpreted to be incompatible with [GPL]'d software, the
major Linux distributions are migrating to
[Xorg
| http://www
.x
.org/]
OS News has a [good summary|http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6157].
It is probable that in the near/mid-term future, one of the FreeDesktop [XServer]s will become the de-facto software used on Linux distributions. (See the FreeDesktop page for background on these servers).
