<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> On 12-02-02 09:13 PM, Daniel Forchheimer wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:AA1CE2E4-A1FC-4932-A674-00F00BCB28FC@student.lth.se" type="cite"> <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> </blockquote> If you are not sure how this can be interpreted and cannot afford a lawyer :-), I recommend using the the X.Org preferred license. The maintainer can add this license text in each source file and fill in the year and the copyright holder name(s). <br> <br> The X.Org Foundation has chosen the following format of the MIT License as the<br> preferred format for code included in the X Window System distribution. This is<br> a slight variant of the common MIT license form published by the Open Source<br> Initiative at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php">http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php</a>.<br> <br> <tt>    Copyright ©[year] [copyright holder]<br> <br>     Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a<br>     copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),<br>     to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation<br>     the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,<br>     and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the<br>     Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:<br> <br>     The above copyright notice and this permission notice (including the next<br>     paragraph) shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the<br>     Software.<br> <br>     THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR<br>     IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,<br>     FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE<br>     AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER<br>     LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING<br>     FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER<br>     DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.<br> <br> </tt> <blockquote cite="mid:AA1CE2E4-A1FC-4932-A674-00F00BCB28FC@student.lth.se" type="cite"> <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 moz-do-not-send="true" 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 moz-do-not-send="true" 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 moz-do-not-send="true" 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 moz-do-not-send="true" 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 moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:xorg-devel@lists.x.org">xorg-devel@lists.x.org</a>: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://X.Org">X.Org</a> development<br> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite">Archives: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel">http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel</a><br> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite">Info: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel">http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel</a><br> </blockquote> </div> </blockquote> </div> <br> </blockquote> <br> </body> </html>