I can't give an official statement but to the best of my knowledge you should be fine :).
On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 1:01:37 PM UTC-5, segin wrote: > > libX11 is under the MIT license, which is functionally equivalent to the > BSD license, allowing binary-only distribution. My question was if it was a > problem with Google Code Hosting's ToS. > > On Monday, February 4, 2013 9:35:34 AM UTC-5, Lennard de Rijk wrote: >> >> As long as that complies with the libX11 license you should be fine (to >> the best of my knowledge). >> >> On Sunday, February 3, 2013 5:08:53 AM UTC-5, segin wrote: >>> >>> I have a project "segin-utils" which is more a meta-project (it's an >>> umbrella for multiple tiny projects that don't really warrant a separate >>> project for themselves) >>> >>> segin-utils mostly serves the purpose of "free Subversion host", much >>> like Code Hosting abusers create projects for random file hosting, except >>> all code hosted is under one or another OSI-approved license, and is true >>> source code. Binaries generally aren't provided. >>> >>> However, I have built one project as a Windows binary. It's "matwm2", a >>> X11 window manager released under the MIT license. I have uploaded the >>> Win32 .exe, along with two different X11.dll files (which, as an X11 >>> program, it would depend on). The reason for providing X11.dll is that it's >>> quite a hard library to get ahold of. >>> >>> However, I don't have the source code for the X11.dll versions I am >>> currently providing (neither in repo or in my possession elsewhere). Since >>> libX11 is itself an open source library (as a part of X.org - latest source >>> here: http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/src/lib/libX11-1.5.0.tar.gz), >>> is it a violation to provide these binaries without providing the source to >>> the particular versions I have? >>> >>> I've included my original location source for the binaries in their >>> download descriptions. One was found in a Subversion repository along with >>> a Windows port of ImageMagick, and the other with a Windows NT port of a >>> very old shared source shareware X11 image viewer (xv). >>> >>> My downloads list: http://code.google.com/p/segin-utils/downloads/list >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Hosting on Google Code" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
