[PATCH app-transset] COPYING: make the content reflect the copyright statements in source code

[Arnaud Fontaine]

Hi,

Gaetan Nadon <memsize at videotron.ca> writes:
> On 12-02-02 09:13 PM, Daniel Forchheimer wrote:
>> I wrote several patches for transset which I released as transset-df.
>> I would suspect  that around 50% of transset-df is  my code, the rest
>> was there from before (transSet.c in xapps) and a few lines have been
>> send to me as patches to transset-df.
>>
>> When  I  started writing  my  patches  the  file transSet.c  had  the
>> following in  the header.  By  Matthew Hawn  Use however you  want. I
>> can't stop you.
>>
>> I wanted  to honor the  original contributor and not  impose anything
>> stricter like GPL or even MIT so  in my version it says: Licence: Use
>> however you want.
>
> If you are  not sure how this  can be interpreted and  cannot afford a
> lawyer :-),  I recommend  using the the  X.Org preferred  license. The
> maintainer can add  this license text in each source  file and fill in
> the year and the copyright holder name(s).
>
> The  X.Org Foundation  has  chosen  the following  format  of the  MIT
> License as  the preferred  format for  code included  in the  X Window
> System  distribution.  This  is a  slight  variant of  the common  MIT
> license   form   published   by   the  Open   Source   Initiative   at
> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.

I really have no strong opinion  about that. Following what Daniel said,
I think you can go ahead and commit it with MIT license as the rest of X
or I  can do it, really  up to you... My  goal is just to  have transset
released.

>> I don't know the legal status of such a message but my intensions and
>> interpretation has  been that  I allow  anyone to  do any  thing they
>> want.  No  right of any kind  is claimed. I can  definitely say that:
>> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
>> a  copy of  this  software and  associated  documentation files  (the
>> "Software"), to  deal in the Software  without restriction, including
>> without limitation the  rights to use, copy,  modify, merge, publish,
>> distribute, sublicense,  and/or sell copies  of the Software,  and to
>> permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
>> the following conditions:

This was my personal opinion as well.

>> Do let me know  if there is anything else I need to  do for Arnaud to
>> be able to proceed.  But really, he has my consent  to do whatever he
>> feels is necessary.

Thanks for your quick reply.

Regards,
-- 
Arnaud Fontaine