dbus: Proposed relicense to MIT/X11
Michael Albinus
michael.albinus at gmx.de
Thu Sep 20 06:10:32 PDT 2007
Ryan Lortie <desrt at desrt.ca> writes:
Hi Ryan,
> You don't have to take my word for it either :). See the FSF's own
> interpretation at http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html:
>
> X11 License
>
> This is a simple, permissive non-copyleft free software license,
> compatible with the GNU GPL. Older versions of XFree86 used the same
> license, and some of the current variants of XFree86 also do. Later
> versions of XFree86 are distributed under the XFree86 1.1 license.
>
> This license is sometimes called the MIT license, but that term is
> misleading, since MIT has used many licenses for software.
>
> Hope this clears up any problems :)
You make me happy :-)
> Cheers
Thanks for clarification, and best regards, Michael.
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