dbus: Proposed relicense to MIT/X11

Olivier Andrieu oandrieu at gmail.com
Tue Sep 18 01:45:01 PDT 2007


Hello,

On 9/13/07, Ryan Lortie <desrt at desrt.ca> wrote:
> There was a meeting of dbus developers at GUADEC and it was agreed by
> all present that it would be best to move dbus to a MIT/X11 style
> licence.
[...]
> 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.

I agree to the relicencing of dbus to this MIT/X11 licence.

Cheers,
-- 
  Olivier


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