On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 03:55:19PM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote: > You read more carefully. > > The XFree86 license (/usr/share/doc/xserver-xfree86/copyright): > "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:" > > It's the *same wording*. It's also used on the X Consortium license, and > Debian's packaging scripts, and the Open Group license. > > The X-Oz license is non-free and GPL-incompatible because of clause 3, > not clause 4. The "X-Oz" license that Daniel posted that started this > thread is *exactly the same* as the license of the rest of X, including > Debian-specific bits. FWIW, the conclusion I've taken back to fd.o/X.Org is that we don't need to bother about xf86AutoConfig.c and other files with this three-clause licence, and that the only smoke was ever caused by a simple mistake. I'm not going to bother reporting back the rest of this thread, except to note that debian-legal should be read selectively. -- Daniel Stone <daniels@debian.org> Debian: the universal operating system http://www.debian.org
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