GPL'd XServer for Windows

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Sat Aug 25 11:30:35 EST 2001


On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 12:04:52PM -0700, Tim Potter wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 04:38:42AM +1000, Rasjid wrote:
> 
> > Anyone wanting to have a look at a little project of mine, please visit
> > http://www.users.bigpond.com/rasjidw/
> > 
> > It is a minimal install of Cygwin/XFree86 for Windows.  Only enough is
> > installed to make connecting to an XDM server and font server easy.
> 
> XFree86 isn't GPL.  It's under a BSD license.  A neat idea though - the
> only good X servers for Windows are commercial ones.

Well, MIT license, actually, which is pretty similar to the newer BSD
license without obnoxious advertising clause.

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