XFree86

It seems that they are now replacing explicit XFree86-4-libraries to USE_XLIB and so. Is this a step dropping XFree86 and go XOrg? :-)

Under a more restrictive licence, the XFree86 project has finally released the long-awaited XFree86 4.4.0-RELEASE. Well, this is really a big news, however, the licence (Yes you guys may say that it is very similiar to the BSD Licence with four clause, however it is not, and more importantly, this is more like the ancient four clause one, which was replaced by a new three-caluse one, and most BSDers will prefer a two clause one like the following:

From the ChangeLog in XFree86 repository, ticket 511 indicates:

511. Encoding file updates (After X-TT Project):

• Removed jisx0208.1983-0.enc and added ‘ALIAS jisx0208.1983-0’ to
  jisx0208.1990-0.enc.
• Added Windows ucs2 cmap(3,1) to jisx0208.1990-0.enc and
  jisx0201.1976-0.enc.
• Added files for GB18030-0 and GB18030-1 (James Su).

Many efforts is ongoing to support the mandatory standard. I am happy to see these progresses, but unfortunatelly it seems that no font vendors are willing to release at least one of their fonts, and it seems unhopeful to see one in the future.