[PATCH libinput] COYPING: Update boilerplate from MIT X11 to MIT Expat license

[Jonas Ådahl]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 10:54:35AM -0400, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 3:46 AM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 11-06-15 04:16, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> >>
> >> To quote Bryce Harrington from [1]:
> >> "MIT has released software under several slightly different licenses,
> >> including the old 'X11 License' or 'MIT License'.  Some code under this
> >> license was in fact included in X.org's Xserver in the past.  However,
> >> X.org now prefers the MIT Expat License as the standard (which,
> >> confusingly, is also referred to as the 'MIT License').  See
> >> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/tree/COPYING
> >>
> >> When Wayland started, it was Kristian Høgsberg's intent to license it
> >> compatibly with X.org.  "I wanted Wayland to be usable (license-wise)
> >> whereever X was usable."  But, the text of the older X11 License was
> >> taken for Wayland, rather than X11's current standard.  This patch
> >> corrects this by swapping in the intended text."
> >>
> >> libinput is a fork of weston and thus inherited the original license
> >> intent
> >> and the license boilerplate itself.
> >>
> >> See this thread on wayland-devel here for a discussion:
> >> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2015-May/022301.html
> >>
> >> [1]
> >> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2015-June/022552.html
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>
> >
> >
> > Based on:
> > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2015-June/022467.html
> > it seems ok to do this, so this is:
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
> >
> 
> Yep, same for me:
> Acked-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires at gmail.com>

Acked by me as well, but I suppose we need to wait and possibly adapt to
whether the "real" MIT Expat license text should be used or the "X11
MIT" license (as discussed in the other thread).

Jonas

> 
> Cheers,
> Benjamin
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