Licence information request XORG-CF-FILES

Adrian Fry (adrfry) adrfry at cisco.com
Thu Jan 9 04:23:49 PST 2014


Dear x.org ,

I represent a technology team at Cisco Systems, Inc. We are contacting you regarding code copyrighted by you which we obtained from x.org, called xorg-cf-files 1.0.2 11.el6, "Configuration File for Xorg' " A member of the development team intends to use this code for commercial purposes and we would like to better understand its licensing terms.

Is there a license agreement for this code such that it can be used in commercial software? Are you willing to release the code under the "MIT" license (also called the "X11" or "Expat" license), reproduced below?

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation
files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without
restriction, including without limitation the rights to use,
copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following
conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES
OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT
HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Looking forward to hearing from you at the earliest.

Thank you.

Kind Regards,

Adrian Fry


[http://www.cisco.com/web/europe/images/email/signature/logo05.jpg]

Adrian Fry
Manager.Quality Systems
SPTVG - Platform Integration & Test
adrfry at cisco.com<mailto:adrfry at cisco.com>
Mobile: +447881914305


Cisco.com<http://www.cisco.com/>



[Think before you print.] Think before you print.

This email may contain confidential and privileged material for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review, use, distribution or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive for the recipient), please contact the sender by reply email and delete all copies of this message.
For corporate legal information go to:
http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/index.html



-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/attachments/20140109/a5b886c3/attachment-0001.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image001.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 5673 bytes
Desc: image001.jpg
URL: <http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/attachments/20140109/a5b886c3/attachment-0001.jpg>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image002.gif
Type: image/gif
Size: 87 bytes
Desc: image002.gif
URL: <http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/attachments/20140109/a5b886c3/attachment-0001.gif>


More information about the xorg-devel mailing list