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

Khem Raj raj.khem at gmail.com
Tue Apr 26 16:43:59 UTC 2016


> On Apr 26, 2016, at 6:57 AM, Flanagan, Elizabeth <elizabeth.flanagan at intel.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.

It may be good to send a query to concerned folks at redhat and clarify
so we don’t have to make assumptions.

> 
>> Ross
>> 
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