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

Yong Bakos junk at humanoriented.com
Thu Feb 23 15:57:58 UTC 2017


Hi Pekka,

> On Feb 23, 2017, at 7:32 AM, 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>

Reviewed-by: Yong Bakos <ybakos at humanoriented.com>

yong


> ---
> 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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