[nmglug] XFree86's new license?

[Sam Noble]

So what do you folks have to say about the new X license?

http://www.xfree86.org/legal/licenses.html

Which includes:
3.
The end-user documentation included with the redistribution, if any,
must include the following acknowledgment: "This product includes
software developed by The XFree86 Project, Inc (http://www.xfree86.org/)
and its contributors", in the same place and form as other third-party
acknowledgments. Alternately, this acknowledgment may appear in the
software itself, in the same form and location as other such third-party
acknowledgments.

Which is a bit ironic in light of FSF's use of it as an example of a
license without such a clause.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html

Also the Debian Weekly News has this:

Branden Robinson indicated that he will probably not be
maintaining the system using the new license.

Is that the Debian maintainer for X? What will this mean?



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