[OE-core] [PATCH 6/6] libxsettings-client: fix LICENSE

Flanagan, Elizabeth elizabeth.flanagan at intel.com
Tue Apr 26 13:57:01 UTC 2016


On 26 April 2016 at 14:29, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
>
> On 26 April 2016 at 01:44, Robert Yang <liezhi.yang at windriver.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks, did you mean the following text ? I can't find MIT license there.
>>
>> /*
>>  * Copyright © 2001 Red Hat, Inc
>>  *
>
>
> Yes, this one.  I've just had a chat with Beth and we both agree that it's
> practically MIT, even if it's not worded traditionally.  My personal belief
> is that this license is Red Hat's legal department's wording of MIT.
> Pointing it at the MIT license is acceptable, but preferable would be adding
> a new "RedHat-MIT" license to common-licenses and using that.
>

Yes, this is MIT enough that, in that, it doesn't really add any
restrictions to MIT that looking at it again I think leaving it MIT is
enough.

> Ross
>
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