MIT copyrights in X.org source base...

[Alan Coopersmith]

I ran this draft by our lawyers, who had some comments.   Funnily enough,
they suggested that to avoid further license proliferation, we should just
use the MIT license instead of developing yet another variant - specifically
they pointed to the version at:
	http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php

which they noted solves the "tree-killing" problem as well, without inventing
new language, by simply not having a clause at all that requires credit in
the documentation.   (They didn't really like adding "electronic" to the
existing clause.)

If you want to go forward with a custom version, I've got a couple nits from
them on the language there that I can forward as well.

	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Jim Gettys wrote:
> Here's an example result of what I propose:
> 
> ----------------
> Copyright 1987, 1998, The X.Org Foundation.
> Copyright 1987, 1991, 1997 Hewlett-Packard Company.
> Copyright 2003-2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
> 
> Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and
> its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee,
> provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that
> both that this copyright notice and this permission notice appear in
> supporting electronic documentation.
> 
> 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 COPYRIGHT HOLDERS OR AUTHORS 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.
>