Re: Please pass judgement on X-Oz licence: free or nay?
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 02:01:03AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> As we're coming up to a release and thus need to close this issue
> quickly, could -legal please comment on this issue for completeness? I
> would really like comments from the peanut gallery, the cheap seats, the
> people who aren't lawyers, the people who are lawyers, whoever.
I'm not sure that this is the _same_ X-Oz license that we've
discussed before [0] on -legal. The terminology here is probably
confusing.
> [3]:
> /*
> * Copyright 2003 by David H. Dawes.
> * Copyright 2003 by X-Oz Technologies.
> * All rights reserved.
> *
> * 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:
> *
> * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
> * all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
> *
> * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
> * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
> * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
> * THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER(S) OR AUTHOR(S) BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR
> * OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE,
> * ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
> * OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
> *
> * Except as contained in this notice, the name of the copyright holder(s)
> * and author(s) shall not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote
> * the sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written
> * authorization from the copyright holder(s) and author(s).
> *
> * Author: David Dawes <dawes@XFree86.Org>.
> */
The above appears to be the standard X.org license, with merely
X-Oz and David Dawes as the copyright holders. I don't think -legal has
a problem with this license at all.
Thanks,
Simon
[0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/02/msg00229.html
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