Carsten Hey wrote: > * Charles Plessy [2010-08-15 00:20 +0900]: > > Le Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 01:26:45PM +0200, Carsten Hey a écrit : > > > Shouldn't it be mentioned in the licenses description that the expat > > > license sometimes wrongly is referred to as MIT license? > > > > I wonder if the tradition of using the “Expat” name to refer unambiguously > > to > > one of the variants of the “MIT” license is widespread or Debian-specific. > > If I would need to make a guess I would guess: the FSF was first in > doing so.
I think that guess is correct. See under X11 License at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#X11License "This license is sometimes called the MIT license, but that term is misleading, since MIT has used many licenses for software." Hope that helps, -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://www.uk.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100816011440.bbb54f7...@nail.towers.org.uk
