Free software license of weston1.9

[Bryce Harrington]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 11:59:58AM +0800, Jonas Ådahl wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 04:43:29AM +0200, Armin Krezović wrote:
> > On 30.06.2016 04:19, 袁嘉伟 wrote:
> > > Hi, All:
> > > 
> > > 
> > >     Who does know that the free software license of weston 1.9 is GPL or LGPL?
> > >     Thanks.
> > >     
> > > Best regards,
> > > Anthenony
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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> > > 
> > 
> > It's neither of those. It's "MIT Expat" license
> > 
> > https://cgit.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston/tree/COPYING
> > 
> 
> While the source code is distributed under the MIT Expat license, be
> aware that the content of the data/ folder (a set of PNG files) have the
> Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license.

No, only some cursors and one of the terminal icons are CC-SA-3.0, the
rest are either explicitly MIT Expat or a close variant; the SVG icons
are dual licensed so can be used flexibly either way.

Also despite the license diversity of the data dir, none of the licenses
impose restrictions on distribution or work combination like the GPL
does, just for modification+redistribution of the images themselves, so
I would be surprised any of this would create any sort of problem for
anyone trying to use weston for any purpose.

Bryce