I agree that the copyright stuff could use a major cleanup. <br>
<br>
A decade ago I contributed some minor makefile/.h changes for Motorola SVR4 <br>
systems -- those systems are now defunct, so I think those copyrights could be<br>
fixed too.<br>
<br>
Pat Kane<br>
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<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/9/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Alan Coopersmith</b> <<a href="mailto:alan.coopersmith@sun.com">alan.coopersmith@sun.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Jim Gettys wrote:<br>> Due to the Digital/Compaq/HP merger, and <a href="http://X.org">X.org</a>'s successor-in-interest<br>> to TOG, I think we have a chance to clean this up greatly. Scott<br>> Peterson, who is HP's lawyer on Free software and Open Source law has
<br>> agreed in principle to letting us merge the Digital/Compaq/HP<br>> copyrights, and I propose we do so with <a href="http://X.org">X.org</a> owned copyrights as well.<br>> If we can come up with exact language (nearly) everyone can agree with,
<br>> maybe we can also get other companies and many individuals to change to<br>> a standard form as well, allowing us to go down to 1 line/copyright<br>> holder.<br><br>Code contributed by Sun in recent years has been using the generic form
<br>("copyright holder" instead of company name in the text) of the license<br>that TOG/old X.Org published in X11R6.6 (but only on some files, not all,<br>to keep things fun), as you quoted in the excerpt you sent. I could
<br>probably get legal approval to relicense prior code from Sun under that<br>license fairly easily. Switching to a license that was close to that<br>would be a little more work, but also probably not that hard, as long as
<br>we stick to the basic MIT/BSD-without-advertising model.<br><br>--<br> -Alan
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