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Newer page: version 4 Last edited on Sunday, November 14, 2004 8:32:16 pm by PeterHewett Revert
Older page: version 3 Last edited on Friday, October 22, 2004 9:09:44 am by JohnMcPherson Revert
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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).