I really appreciate your help, Alan. Thanks. :-). Best wishes, Duncan
2009/11/24 Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]> > 余飞 wrote: > > The context is that our corp wanna diliver Xorg to our customers. > > And you know there're many packages within Xorg, each with a lot of > > license declarations. Moreover, > > some packages have the stub license as xf86-input-keyboard-1.2.2 does. > > So, could we just collect the license declarations into a single > > COPYING file and label it as > > XXX-LICENSE(XXX is the name of the package) since It's time-consuming to > > figure out > > whether they're BSD or other specific licence type? > > That's between you and your corporations lawyers and the designers of your > delivery mechanism for software and licenses. X.Org cannot provide > legal advice or know what your policies and requirements are. > > The corporation I work for doesn't have us try to classify the licenses > (they're mostly MIT or BSD variants, but not exact matches for specific > master copies of either of those), just publish with each package we > publish a complete copy of all the licenses for the contents - but that's > based on the way our packages are delivered and the advice we got from our > lawyers about complying with the licenses and the laws of the various > countries we do business in. > > -- > -Alan Coopersmith- [email protected] > Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering > > >
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