Am 24. Januar 2015 00:12:47 MEZ, schrieb Francesco Poli <invernomuto@paranoici.org>:
On Thu, 22 Jan 2015 15:10:50 +0100 Jürgen Weigert wrote:
Hey Pablo, hey debian legal's!
Hello Jürgen!
[...]
I hereby grant permission to distribute and use xxd
under X11-MIT or GPL-2.0 (at the user's choice)
[...]
That's great to hear, thanks a lot! :-)
I suppose that by "X11-MIT" you mean the Expat/MIT license.
That is to say, you are granting permission to distribute and use xxd
under the following terms:
=============
Copyright (c) 1990-1997 Jürgen Weigert
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 AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS 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 SOFTWA
RE.
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Could you please confirm that this is actually the case?
Please note that adding the GNU GPL v2 as an alternative license
(dual-licensing) is totally superfluous, since the Expat/MIT license
grants many more permissions than the GNU GPL v2, with no restriction
not present in the GNU GPL v2...