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

Bryce Harrington bryce at osg.samsung.com
Fri Feb 24 23:36:18 UTC 2017


On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 07:57:58AM -0800, Yong Bakos wrote:
> 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>

LGTM, landed:

To ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/wayland/wayland-web
   28245d7..df85c1d  master -> master

 
> 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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