[oe] [PATCH 2/2] iceauth: Add `LICENSE = "MIT-X"`

Andreas Mueller schnitzeltony at gmx.de
Fri Jul 29 20:48:49 UTC 2011


On Friday, July 29, 2011 09:01:05 PM Paul Menzel wrote:
> Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:47:22 +0200
> 
> This license is listed online for example at the Web site of XFree86 [1],
> Debian [2]. No name of the license is mentioned there. Gentoo just uses
> »MIT« [3].
> 
> There are some packages in OpenEmbedded using `MIT-X` and I guess they
> refer to the same license. I prefer »X/MIT« derived from the chapter name
> of [1] »MIT/X Licenses«.
> 
> [1] http://www.xfree86.org/current/LICENSE5.html
> [2]
> http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/x/x11-xserver-utils/x11-xs
> erver-utils_7.6+3/x11-xserver-utils.copyright [3]
> http://gpo.zugaina.org/x11-apps/iceauth/euscan
oe-core seems to prefer MIT too [1]. iceauth license looks same but appends 
additional sentence. So if no objections I will coose MIT in next version of 
patch for meta-oe.

Andreas

[1] http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded-
core/tree/meta/files/common-licenses/MIT




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