Hi, Gaetan Nadon <[email protected]> writes: > On 12-02-02 09:13 PM, Daniel Forchheimer wrote: >> I wrote several patches for transset which I released as transset-df. >> I would suspect that around 50% of transset-df is my code, the rest >> was there from before (transSet.c in xapps) and a few lines have been >> send to me as patches to transset-df. >> >> When I started writing my patches the file transSet.c had the >> following in the header. By Matthew Hawn Use however you want. I >> can't stop you. >> >> I wanted to honor the original contributor and not impose anything >> stricter like GPL or even MIT so in my version it says: Licence: Use >> however you want. > > If you are not sure how this can be interpreted and cannot afford a > lawyer :-), I recommend using the the X.Org preferred license. The > maintainer can add this license text in each source file and fill in > the year and the copyright holder name(s). > > The X.Org Foundation has chosen the following format of the MIT > License as the preferred format for code included in the X Window > System distribution. This is a slight variant of the common MIT > license form published by the Open Source Initiative at > http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
I really have no strong opinion about that. Following what Daniel said, I think you can go ahead and commit it with MIT license as the rest of X or I can do it, really up to you... My goal is just to have transset released. >> I don't know the legal status of such a message but my intensions and >> interpretation has been that I allow anyone to do any thing they >> want. No right of any kind is claimed. I can definitely say that: >> 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: This was my personal opinion as well. >> Do let me know if there is anything else I need to do for Arnaud to >> be able to proceed. But really, he has my consent to do whatever he >> feels is necessary. Thanks for your quick reply. Regards, -- Arnaud Fontaine _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
