[PATCH] COPYING: Update license preamble

[Peter Hutterer]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:05:01AM -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> 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
> -- 
> 1.5.6.5
 
Reviewed-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>

Cheers,
  Peter