xserver-wrapper licensing (was: Re: [PULL to discuss] Remove kdrive, Xnest, and Xvfb)

[Brice Goglin]

Le 27/03/2012 23:46, Daniel Stone a écrit :
> Hi,
> Sorry for the excess quoting, I've left it in for context for those Cc'ed ...
>
> 2012/3/27 Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu at apple.com>:
>> On Mar 27, 2012, at 12:08 AM, Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net> wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2012-03-26 at 22:06 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>>>> On 03/26/12 09:07 PM, Jamey Sharp wrote:
>>>>> Maybe I have it right this time: On Debian, there's no problem,
>>>>> because /usr/bin/X is a trivial suid wrapper and /usr/bin/Xorg is not
>>>>> installed suid. Solaris and other Unixes could take the same approach,
>>>>> right?
>>>> While I've heard about this before, I've not seen the sources for this wrapper
>>>> (can someone provide a pointer?  all I'm finding in google is man pages & bug
>>>> reports that reference it)
>>> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-xorg/debian/xorg.git;a=history;f=debian/local/xserver-wrapper.c
>> As a warning, this is GPL-2:
>>
>>  88  * This is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify
>>  89  * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
>>  90  * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2,
>>  91  * or (at your option) any later version.
>>
>> I stopped reading after that point, given that we are likely to do something similar, I didn't want to contaminate myself with potential GPL influence.  Anyone who might actually write the code for our version of this wrapper should probably avoid reading the source.
> Stephen, Mark, Branden - would you be amenable to relicensing this
> under the standard X.Org MIT/X11 copyright, as quoted below, for
> possible inclusion in X.Org upstream?
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel

Sorry for the delay.
I am fine with this license for my contributions as well.
Brice Goglin



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