[CS-FSLUG] OpenBSD - apache license

[N.Thompson]

On June 6, 2004 08:15 pm, john-thomas richards wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 10:06:30PM -0400, Brian Derr wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > Wow, I didn't even know Apache switched licenses.  It makes one wonder
> > why groups keep changing their licensing when they know that people are
> > going to shun them for it?  Take XFree86 for example, I have a feeling
> > they are just going to die here in the near future because of their
> > license issue.  Why change what works?
>
> that is a good question.  in the case of xfree86, they went from
> *dominating* the x arena in *nix to being cast off like yesterday's
> socks in a just a few months.  six months ago, if you ran linux, you ran
> xfree86, too.  in a couple months?  i doubt it.
>
> how long will it take for apache to be forked and for the newly named
> fork (whatever it may be) to become the dominant web server?

Already done, I have already heard of a small handfull of distributions 
starting to experiment with the FreeDesktop.org X server (wasn't it called 
Xorg or something like that?). Three of those distributions I think are 
Gentoo, Onebase and Slackware.