[PATCH] COPYING: Update license preamble

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Tue Nov 24 00:05:01 PST 2009


Update the comment about "a modification is currently under discussion"
since there hasn't been any such discussion for some time and this is
the consensus agreed upon preferred format.

Also throw in a pointer to the OSI discussion page about the MIT license.

Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at sun.com>
---
 COPYING |   14 ++++++++------
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
index 0878c7a..ef52fb6 100644
--- a/COPYING
+++ b/COPYING
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 The following is the 'standard copyright' agreed upon by most contributors,
-and is currently the canonical license, though a modification is currently
-under discussion.  Copyright holders of new code should use this license
-statement where possible, and append their name to this list.  Please sort
-by surname for people, and by the full name for other entities (e.g.
-Juliusz Chroboczek sorts before Intel Corporation sorts before Daniel
-Stone).
+and is currently the canonical license preferred by the X.Org Foundation.
+This is a slight variant of the common MIT license form published by the
+Open Source Initiative at http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
+
+Copyright holders of new code should use this license statement where
+possible, and insert their name to this list.  Please sort by surname
+for people, and by the full name for other entities (e.g.  Juliusz
+Chroboczek sorts before Intel Corporation sorts before Daniel Stone).
 
 Copyright © 2000-2001 Juliusz Chroboczek
 Copyright © 1998 Egbert Eich
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