<div>I really appreciate your help, Alan. Thanks. :-).</div>
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<div>Best wishes,</div>
<div>Duncan<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">2009/11/24 Alan Coopersmith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Alan.Coopersmith@sun.com">Alan.Coopersmith@sun.com</a>></span><br>
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<div class="im">Óà·É wrote:<br>> The context is that our corp wanna diliver Xorg to our customers.<br>> And you know there're many packages within Xorg, each with a lot of<br>> license declarations. Moreover,<br>
> some packages have the stub license as xf86-input-keyboard-1.2.2 does.<br>> So, could we just collect the license declarations into a single<br>> COPYING file and label it as<br>> XXX-LICENSE(XXX is the name of the package) since It's time-consuming to<br>
> figure out<br>> whether they're BSD or other specific licence type?<br><br></div>That's between you and your corporations lawyers and the designers of your<br>delivery mechanism for software and licenses. X.Org cannot provide<br>
legal advice or know what your policies and requirements are.<br><br>The corporation I work for doesn't have us try to classify the licenses<br>(they're mostly MIT or BSD variants, but not exact matches for specific<br>
master copies of either of those), just publish with each package we<br>publish a complete copy of all the licenses for the contents - but that's<br>based on the way our packages are delivered and the advice we got from our<br>
lawyers about complying with the licenses and the laws of the various<br>countries we do business in.<br><font color="#888888"><br>--<br></font>
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<div class="h5"> -Alan Coopersmith- <a href="mailto:alan.coopersmith@sun.com">alan.coopersmith@sun.com</a><br> Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering<br><br><br></div></div></blockquote>
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