dbus: Proposed relicense to MIT/X11

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Fri Sep 14 09:58:57 PDT 2007


On Thursday 13 September 2007 21:18:24 Ryan Lortie wrote:
> The text of the proposed new licence (MIT/X11) is as follows:
>
>       Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
>       obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation
>       files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without
>       restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy,
>       modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies
>       of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
>       furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
>
>       The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
>       included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
>
>       THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
>       EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
>       MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
>       NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT
>       HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
>       WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
>       OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
>       DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
>
> Of course, in order to complete the relicense, we need the approval of
> all contributors to the affected code.

I approve the license change to any code owned by me that is still in use in 
the D-Bus source code (CVS module "dbus").

Just to be clear: this does not apply retroactively.

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