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Re: Fwd: Re: License for xxd in vim-common



On Sun, 25 Jan 2015 03:35:59 +0100 Jürgen Weigert wrote:

> The language you quote is exactly what I meant.

Perfect! Thanks a lot for confirming.  :-)

> It is identical to the original MIT X11 License as found at
> e.g. opensource.org . Expat seems to advocate a new name for
> the same thing. Fine with me.

Calling it Expat/MIT license is just a way to unambiguously refer to
one of the variants that are often called "MIT license":
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#Expat

> 
> I also believe that this license is sufficiently permissive on its
> own. But I want to explicitly express GPL compatibility without
> giving an interpretation of either license.

That's fine.


Thanks again for your kind help in solving this licensing issue.

I have just filed a bug report against the Debian vim-common package,
in order to have this (new) licensing status of xxd properly documented
in the debian/copyright file of the package.
The bug report is #776191:

https://bugs.debian.org/776191


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