<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hi Arnaud, Gaetan and Bart</div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>When I started writing my patches the file transSet.c had the following in the header.</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre; ">By Matthew Hawn</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre; ">Use however you want. I can't stop you.</span></div><div><div><br></div></div><div>I wanted to honor the original contributor and not impose anything stricter like GPL or even MIT so in my version it says:</div><div>Licence: Use however you want.</div><div><br></div><div>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:</div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Daniel</div><div><br></div><div><div>On Feb 1, 2012, at 9:49 AM, Bart Massey wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Uh, if the code's keithp's or dstone's or somebody like that, just ask<br>them to fix it. They will likely respond both promptly and positively.<br>--Bart<br><br>On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Gaetan Nadon <<a href="mailto:memsize@videotron.ca">memsize@videotron.ca</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">On 12-01-26 09:19 PM, Arnaud Fontaine wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Hello,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Gaetan Nadon <<a href="mailto:memsize@videotron.ca">memsize@videotron.ca</a>> writes:<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">The author of the code should submit a patch to clarify his rights<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">over the code. The <a href="http://X.Org">X.Org</a> preferred license can be found here:<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.6/doc/xorg-docs/License.html#id2521948">http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.6/doc/xorg-docs/License.html#id2521948</a><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">That would be great indeed.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">The role of the COPYING file is to reflect (or summarize) the<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">copyright statements in the source code. Currently it is wrong. If<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">this patch makes it correct, it should be applied. If and when the<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">source code changes, the COPYING file would need to be updated again<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">(business as usual).<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">I agree with you, but the patch you sent only reflects the copyright<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">statements of a part of dsimple.{c,h}.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">So we agree in principle, what other Copyright statements have I missed?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I admit I do not read each source file but I do a grep on "Copyright".<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">If there are none, then that is the end of it.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I don't search for missing copyright statements, typos, or for any<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">comment that could be interpreted as a copyright like "public domain" or<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">"do what you want". I don't know how to handle these or if they have any<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">legal significance.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">That's the limit of my understanding :-)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Regards,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:xorg-devel@lists.x.org">xorg-devel@lists.x.org</a>: <a href="http://X.Org">X.Org</a> development<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Archives: <a href="http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel">http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Info: <a href="http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel">http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel</a><br></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>