On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 08:09:27PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > >So, what happened is that we have autoconfig code available to us under > >the XFree86 1.0 (3-clause BSD) licence, which is DFSG-free; this is the > >same code that's currently in the X.Org tree, which appeared to form > >the core of Nathaniel's concerns. > > That's Nathan*a*el. :-) Er, sorry. > Looks good. I was, like Branden, confused by the silent relicensing by > David Dawes in the XFree86 repo in September 2003. :-( > > The *other* thing I was concerned about are the code by David Dawes & > friends which he committed in the period when he claims that new code > was licensed under the 1.1 license despite not changing the license > notice in the specific files. That stuff is nearly all trivial, > however. I made a list of some sort of some of that at some point, I > seem to remember. Despite the fact we obviously want to err on the side of caution, if he wants to do that, he should update the copyright notice. If I download that file, I get a loud and clear copyright notice right at the top assigning me my rights. Those rights assigned are broader than the XFree86 1.1 licence. -- Daniel Stone <daniels@debian.org> Debian: the universal operating system http://www.debian.org
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