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| author | Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@sun.com> | 2009-11-23 22:24:44 -0800 |
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| committer | Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@sun.com> | 2009-12-15 10:23:41 -0800 |
| commit | 44f102ed64e2552a0e04714c7574f74ca5ee66e2 (patch) | |
| tree | 1f048942bf1d02443e78a10d33405e27f58c3a0a /COPYING | |
| parent | 00a7252fe3e519e3e4d62cdd8746833ca59bce77 (diff) | |
COPYING: Update license preamble
Update the comment about "a modification is currently under discussion"
since there hasn't been any such discussion for some time and this is
the consensus agreed upon preferred format.
Also throw in a pointer to the OSI discussion page about the MIT license.
Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@sun.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'COPYING')
| -rw-r--r-- | COPYING | 14 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@ The following is the 'standard copyright' agreed upon by most contributors, -and is currently the canonical license, though a modification is currently -under discussion. Copyright holders of new code should use this license -statement where possible, and append their name to this list. Please sort -by surname for people, and by the full name for other entities (e.g. -Juliusz Chroboczek sorts before Intel Corporation sorts before Daniel -Stone). +and is currently the canonical license preferred by the X.Org Foundation. +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 + +Copyright holders of new code should use this license statement where +possible, and insert their name to this list. Please sort by surname +for people, and by the full name for other entities (e.g. Juliusz +Chroboczek sorts before Intel Corporation sorts before Daniel Stone). Copyright © 2000-2001 Juliusz Chroboczek Copyright © 1998 Egbert Eich |