Wayland not MIT-licensed / FAQ wrong

Markus Slopianka kamikazow at gmx.de
Fri Jun 5 05:50:04 PDT 2015


On Friday 05 June 2015 10:24:12 Pekka Paalanen wrote:

> Any reason he's not in CC here, btw?

I didn't think of it.


> - notify people explicitly that we are going to do this, also for new
>   files using the old license text that get in during the waiting time
>   (patch cover letter)

I think Kristian's mail already counts.


> - publish patches to change the license text

Please do. I'm far from fluent enough with git.


> Dear community, which MIT license?
> 
> The license recommended in
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/tree/COPYING
> is the same as
> http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
> so that is the one, right?
> 
> It is the same as what is called "expat" at
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#Expat

Yes, that's what's usually referred to as MIT license.



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