Red Hat 8.0 CD problem

E Frank Ball frankb at efball.com
Mon Oct 7 14:17:54 PDT 2002


On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 02:09:59PM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
} On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 02:06:14PM -0700, E Frank Ball wrote:
} > 
} > Licensing issues, that's why xv dissappeared in 7.2 also.  What I don't
} > understand is why they dropped tin in 7.2 and fvwm in 8.0.
} 
} That is interesting:
} 
}   http://www.icewalkers.com/softlib/app/app_00687.html
} 
} Reports TIN as being licensed under the GPL. :^/
} 
} -bill!

Tin and fvwm are both gpl, but I guess they don't fit with the gnome/kde
gui everything paradigm the redhat seems to be going for.  Just one more
reason to switch to Debian.  And fvwm in Redhat 7.3 was broken anyway.

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   E Frank Ball                frankb at efball.com



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