On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 19:20:00 -0400 Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> MJ Ray wrote:
> >BSD: http://www.debian.org/misc/bsd.license
> >MIT/X11: http://www.x.org/Downloads_terms.html
>
> Unfortunately, that is a subtly different X11 license from the one at
> opensource.org. :-( (X11 stuff is actually under a mix of very
> similar but not quite identical licenses.) I prefer the one at
> opensource.org, because it lacks the unnecessary "name of a copyright
> holder shall not be used... to promote..." clause.
Wait a second...
AFAICT, there are two main licenses that are ambiguously also known as
"MIT license": the Expat license (http://www.jclark.com/xml/copying.txt)
and the X11 license (http://www.x.org/Downloads_terms.html).
AFAIK, the latter is the only one known as "X11 license", even though,
as you correctly point out, various free X11 implementations (XFree86
before version 4.3.99cannotremember, Xorg, ...) are under a mix of
different (but similar) licenses, and not only under the "X11 license"...
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:-( This Universe is buggy! Where's the Creator's BTS? ;-)
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