MIT copyrights in X.org source base...

[Drew Parsons]

On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 16:16 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote:
> All over our source base, we have N different variants of the MIT
> license, and often N variants that differ solely by the name of the
> person or company named as the copyright holder.  For example, attached
> for you amusement and revulsion, is the 109 lines of copyrights found in
> xserver/dix/events.c.  On this file, we have 1 TOG notice, 2 Digital
> Equipment Corporation notices (!), along with a Sun Microsystems notice.
> 
> 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.
> 

Sounds like a positive move.  Any chance of getting SGI in particular to
agree to the new licence for their GLX contributions?  Their GLX and
FreeB licences clash somewhat [0].

Drew

[0]	http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=368564
	http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=368559