dbus: Proposed relicense to MIT/X11

[Robert Shearman]

Ryan Lortie wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I am writing this email because the three of you wrote code that was
> copied into dbus by someone else.  We are currently in the middle of an
> effort to relicense dbus to an MIT/X11 style license.
>
> This email concerns two blocks of code:
>
>
> dbus-sysdeps-win.c:
>
> 2444  * Backtrace Generator
> 2445  *
> 2446  * Copyright 2004 Eric Poech
> 2447  * Copyright 2004 Robert Shearman
>
> view: http://git.desrt.ca/gitweb/?p=dbus.git;a=blob;f=dbus/dbus-sysdeps-win.c;h=3c6c31be976250f77cd6f20aea3a47265e4b0323;hb=44ed90c10d435f1a12c2b4b1a601040fa585ce38
>
> In both cases the code is licensed under the LGPL "2 or later".
>
> The text of the proposed new license is the standard MIT/X11 license:
>
>       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.
>
> We would appreciate it if you are willing to allow your code to be used
> under these terms.

Both I and my company are willing to allow the code to be used under the 
terms quoted above.

-- 
Rob Shearman