On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 12:16:31PM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: > To quote Bryce Harrington from [1]: > "MIT has released software under several slightly different licenses, > including the old 'X11 License' or 'MIT License'. Some code under this > license was in fact included in X.org's Xserver in the past. However, > X.org now prefers the MIT Expat License as the standard (which, > confusingly, is also referred to as the 'MIT License'). See > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/tree/COPYING > > When Wayland started, it was Kristian Høgsberg's intent to license it > compatibly with X.org. "I wanted Wayland to be usable (license-wise) > whereever X was usable." But, the text of the older X11 License was > taken for Wayland, rather than X11's current standard. This patch > corrects this by swapping in the intended text." > > libinput is a fork of weston and thus inherited the original license intent > and the license boilerplate itself. > > See this thread on wayland-devel here for a discussion: > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2015-May/022301.html > > [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2015-June/022552.html >
just as a follow-up notice, this patch is now pushed. Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
