[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 1/2] trace: Re-license trace.xsl under MIT license.

[Eric Anholt]

Brian Paul <brianp at vmware.com> writes:

> On 01/17/2014 08:33 AM, jfonseca at vmware.com wrote:
>> From: José Fonseca <jfonseca at vmware.com>
>>
>> I was the sole author, as Tungsten Graphics employee, which was since
>> then acquired by VMware Inc.
>> ---
>>   src/gallium/drivers/trace/trace.xsl | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
>>   1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/src/gallium/drivers/trace/trace.xsl b/src/gallium/drivers/trace/trace.xsl
>> index 7be95e0..12458ae 100644
>> --- a/src/gallium/drivers/trace/trace.xsl
>> +++ b/src/gallium/drivers/trace/trace.xsl
>> @@ -2,20 +2,28 @@
>>
>>   <!--
>>
>> -Copyright 2008 Tungsten Graphics, Inc.
>> -
>> -This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
>> -under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published
>> -by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
>> -(at your option) any later version.
>> -
>> -This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>> -but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>> -MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
>> -GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
>> -
>> -You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
>> -along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
>> +Copyright 2008 VMware, Inc.
>> +All Rights Reserved.
>> +
>> +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, sub license, 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 (including the
>> +next paragraph) 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 NON-INFRINGEMENT.
>> +IN NO EVENT SHALL VMWARE AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR
>
> Last spring, I think Kenneth changed most of these blurbs to read "THE 
> AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS" instead of company/individual names here.
> But not a big deal either way here.

If you can possibly get your license text changed, please use "the
authors or copyright holders".  Otherwise, people collecting license
information for your software need to reproduce every custom copy of the
text, and people trying to figure out the license of the software get to
read even more awful legalese.
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