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

Pekka Paalanen pekka.paalanen at collabora.co.uk
Thu Feb 23 15:52:12 UTC 2017


On Thu, 23 Feb 2017 17:32:52 +0200
Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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>

Please add:

Reported-by: Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau at arm.com>


Thanks,
pq

> ---
>  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>



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