MIT copyrights in X.org source base...

[Pat Kane]

I agree that the copyright stuff could use a major cleanup.

A decade ago I contributed some minor makefile/.h changes for Motorola SVR4
systems -- those systems are now defunct, so I think those copyrights could
be
 fixed too.

Pat Kane
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On 10/9/06, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:
>
> Jim Gettys wrote:
> > Due to the Digital/Compaq/HP merger, and X.org's successor-in-interest
> > to TOG, I think we have a chance to clean this up greatly. Scott
> > Peterson, who is HP's lawyer on Free software and Open Source law has
> > agreed in principle to letting us merge the Digital/Compaq/HP
> > copyrights, and I propose we do so with X.org owned copyrights as well.
> > If we can come up with exact language (nearly) everyone can agree with,
> > maybe we can also get other companies and many individuals to change to
> > a standard form as well, allowing us to go down to 1 line/copyright
> > holder.
>
> Code contributed by Sun in recent years has been using the generic form
> ("copyright holder" instead of company name in the text) of the license
> that TOG/old X.Org published in X11R6.6 (but only on some files, not all,
> to keep things fun), as you quoted in the excerpt you sent.   I could
> probably get legal approval to relicense prior code from Sun under that
> license fairly easily.   Switching to a license that was close to that
> would be a little more work, but also probably not that hard, as long as
> we stick to the basic MIT/BSD-without-advertising model.
>
> --
>         -Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
>          Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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