[Bf-docboard] XFig license change

[Felix Rabe]

Dear XFig team,

The documentation team over at http://www.blender.org/ (of which I am a 
member) was recently struggling with the task of opening and editing an 
EPS file using free software.  I remembered some free programs that 
would be suitable for this task, but could not name any of them exactly, 
since I'm currently not doing any vector-based image editing.

To make a long story short: somebody mentioned XFig, but was unsure 
about its exact kind of license, so I went looking for it from 
freshmeat.net, and found your page at www.xfig.org.  I went on to look 
after a copyright notice, and I found that it (seemingly) had just 
changed a few days ago to prohibit selling XFig alone.

Since I see that this could cause many complications (aside from the 
fact that the Free Software Foundation will call it GPL-incompatible, or 
even Non-Free Software), I'd like to hear about your motivation that led 
to this change.

It is of additional interest to me since the "Blender DocBoard" chose a 
non-free (as per the FSF) license (the Open Content License) as its 
primary license for documentation, which similarily prohibits the sale 
of the product that is affected by the license, although there are plans 
to let a publisher sell a printed version of the documentation effort's 
manual somewhen in the future.  I'm still hoping to be able to convince 
them that the OCL is not the ideal license in this situation, but I'd 
like to hear your arguments for this matter nonetheless.

Greetings,

Felix Rabe