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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RE: Comment by sbergman27
by StephenBeDoper on Thu 8th Jan 2009 02:01
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Still, there are a few legal loose ends that need to be tied up before GNU/Linux distributions can utilize all the code base in freedom.
To be safe, I suggest that purists turn off their computers until these loose ends are resolved and the spring wave of distros is released. See you in April or May.
Edited 2009-01-08 01:49 UTC