[PATCH wayland-web] FAQ: do not mention GPL

Pekka Paalanen ppaalanen at gmail.com
Thu Feb 23 15:32:52 UTC 2017


From: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen at collabora.co.uk>

I could not find what the "some example code" could be. There is
certainly nothing GPL in Wayland or Weston repositories.

I hear having GPL mentioned in the FAQ has raised some questions with
lawyers, too. It's just misleading.

While at it, make it more clear which MIT license we refer to.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen at collabora.co.uk>
---
 faq.html | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/faq.html b/faq.html
index 9fd8731..ef76657 100644
--- a/faq.html
+++ b/faq.html
@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@
 <h3>What is the license?</h3>
 
 <p>
-  Wayland is licensed under the MIT license with some example code
-  under the GPL.
+  Wayland is licensed under the
+  <a href="https://cgit.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/tree/COPYING">MIT Expat license</a>.
 </p>
 
 <h3>Why duplicate all this work?</h3>
-- 
2.10.2



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