Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 8th Jan 2009 00:15 UTC
Thanks to SGI, a potential disaster for Free software purists has been averted. Back in January 2008, it was discovered by the OpenBSD guys that some of the contributions to X.org and the Mesa 3D Graphics Library made by SGI were covered under permissive open source licenses that didn't fall within FSF's definition of Free software. The FSF Compliance Lab worked with SGI to resolve the issue, and they succeeded.
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OpenBSD probably were. No one else is paranoid enough to constantly audit their code like they do. They audit for security, and they audit for licensing.
They appear to be planning to systemically remove GPL code from their base, so they can relicense the entire thing under an ISC license.
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2005-07-13
Now do you think the OpenBSD guys were the first to find this? or that everyone else who found this just went, "oh man, I am going to keep my mouth shut on this one."
either way I am glad that all is well in X.org land, well, at least the licencing aspect 
Edited 2009-01-08 00:31 UTC