Re: xfree86 license

[Damien Miller <djm@mindrot.org>]

Jonathan Martin wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 10:23:10AM +0000, Chris Howells wrote:
>  
> <snip xfree replacement stuff>
> 
>>freedesktop.org
> 
> 
> From http://www.freedesktop.org/Main/MissionStatement
> 
> "freedesktop.org's code will be placed under free licenses that encourage
> wide use; most commonly, the LGPL for libraries, or an X-style license
> when appropriate."
> 
> Seems clear enough to me.  GPL == useless for OpenBSD.

It is easy to be misinformed when one reads "mission statements" rather
than CVS:

http://freedesktop.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/X11/COPYING?rev=1.1&cvsroot=xlibs&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

The freedesktop.org XLibs release appears to be under the same
copyrights as pre-fuckup XFree, certainly no GPL in sight.

Ditto the new Xserver project:

http://pdx.freedesktop.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xserver/damageext/damageext.c?rev=1.6&cvsroot=xserver&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

(it lacks a top-level license file, but a random survey of CVS files all
had similar MIT-style licenses)

-d