On 01/06/15 02:47 AM, Steven Newbury wrote: > On Mon Jun 1 08:16:32 2015 GMT+0100, Pekka Paalanen wrote: >> On Mon, 1 Jun 2015 12:25:37 +1000 >> Peter Hutterer <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 02:09:43AM +0200, Markus Slopianka wrote: >>>> On Monday 01 June 2015 09:26:56 Peter Hutterer wrote: >>>> >>>>> but given that this is a significant rewording of the license text (even >>>>> if >>>>> the functionality stays the same) we're basically down to: is this a >>>>> license >>>>> change? and I'll have to shrug as well here and defer to the lawyers. >>>> >>>> I could ask a FSFE lawyer friend of mine. >>> >>> that's d be great, thanks. >> >> (re-adding CCs) >> >> Hi Markus, Kristian, >> >> since I'm not completely alone with my worries here, I too would like to >> hear what your friend has to say before we do any changes. I do not >> have any such connections myself. >> >> I'm still not really sure which license we would like to pick if we can >> change it without stomping on any contributor's rights. Maybe the >> following would be of guidance? >> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/tree/COPYING >> >> Kristian, isn't the xserver COPYING file's first license (called MIT >> and preferred) the one you wanted to use? >> > IANAL, but since the annouced license was always MIT, and that was the > understanding of (all?) contributors, doesn't the repo just have the wrong > COPYING file? Isn't it just a “bug”?
I errantly made this assumption too - check the source files. COPYING contains the same text as the boilerplate license text in pretty much every source file. If it's a "bug" it's quite pervasive and long standing. Whether that matters or not I don't know, IANAL either. _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
