[Cogl] [PATCH] This re-licenses Cogl 1.18 under the MIT license

[Neil Roberts]

Cool, looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Neil Roberts <neil at linux.intel.com>

Regards,
- Neil

Robert Bragg <robert at sixbynine.org> writes:

> From: Robert Bragg <robert at linux.intel.com>
>
> Since the Cogl 1.18 branch is actively maintained in parallel with the
> master branch; this is a counter part to commit 1b83ef938fc16b which
> re-licensed the master branch to use the MIT license.
>
> This re-licensing is a follow up to the proposal that was sent to the
> Cogl mailing list:
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/cogl/2013-December/001465.html
>
> Note: there was a copyright assignment policy in place for Clutter (and
> therefore Cogl which was part of Clutter at the time) until the 11th of
> June 2010 and so we only checked the details after that point (commit
> 0bbf50f905)
>
> For each file, authors were identified via this Git command:
> $ git blame -p -C -C -C20 -M -M10  0bbf50f905..HEAD
>
> We received blanket approvals for re-licensing all Red Hat and Collabora
> contributions which reduced how many people needed to be contacted
> individually:
> - http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/cogl/2013-December/001470.html
> - http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/cogl/2014-January/001536.html
>
> Individual approval requests were sent to all the other identified authors
> who all confirmed the re-license on the Cogl mailinglist:
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/cogl/2014-January
>
> As well as updating the copyright header in all sources files, the
> COPYING file has been updated to reflect the license change and also
> document the other licenses used in Cogl such as the SGI Free Software
> License B, version 2.0 and the 3-clause BSD license.
>
> This patch was not simply cherry-picked from master; but the same
> methodology was used to check the source files.