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Subject: Re: About license of input drivers of Xorg
From: <feifaith () gmail ! com>
Date: 2009-11-24 7:49:54
Message-ID: 92ca50a90911232349p44e6be5dgae855a7ad92d8fb9 () mail ! gmail ! com
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I really appreciate your help, Alan. Thanks. :-).
Best wishes,
Duncan
2009/11/24 Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith@sun.com>
> =D3=E0=B7=C9 wrote:
> > The context is that our corp wanna diliver Xorg to our customers.
> > And you know there're many packages within Xorg, each with a lot of
> > license declarations. Moreover,
> > some packages have the stub license as xf86-input-keyboard-1.2.2 does.
> > So, could we just collect the license declarations into a single
> > COPYING file and label it as
> > XXX-LICENSE(XXX is the name of the package) since It's time-consuming t=
o
> > figure out
> > whether they're BSD or other specific licence type?
>
> That's between you and your corporations lawyers and the designers of you=
r
> delivery mechanism for software and licenses. X.Org cannot provide
> legal advice or know what your policies and requirements are.
>
> The corporation I work for doesn't have us try to classify the licenses
> (they're mostly MIT or BSD variants, but not exact matches for specific
> master copies of either of those), just publish with each package we
> publish a complete copy of all the licenses for the contents - but that's
> based on the way our packages are delivered and the advice we got from ou=
r
> lawyers about complying with the licenses and the laws of the various
> countries we do business in.
>
> --
> -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith@sun.com
> Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
>
>
>
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<div>I really appreciate your help, Alan. Thanks. :-).</div>
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<div>Best wishes,</div>
<div>Duncan<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">2009/11/24 Alan Coopersmith <span dir="ltr"><<a \
href="mailto:Alan.Coopersmith@sun.com">Alan.Coopersmith@sun.com</a>></span><br> \
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; \
BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> <div class="im">Óà·É wrote:<br>> The context is that \
our corp wanna diliver Xorg to our customers.<br>> And you know there're many \
packages within Xorg, each with a lot of<br>> license declarations. Moreover,<br> \
> some packages have the stub license as xf86-input-keyboard-1.2.2 does.<br>> \
So, could we just collect the license declarations into a single<br>> COPYING file \
and label it as<br>> XXX-LICENSE(XXX is the name of the package) since It's \
time-consuming to<br> > figure out<br>> whether they're BSD or other \
specific licence type?<br><br></div>That's between you and your corporations \
lawyers and the designers of your<br>delivery mechanism for software and licenses. \
X.Org cannot provide<br> legal advice or know what your policies and \
requirements are.<br><br>The corporation I work for doesn't have us try to \
classify the licenses<br>(they're mostly MIT or BSD variants, but not exact \
matches for specific<br> master copies of either of those), just publish with \
each package we<br>publish a complete copy of all the licenses for the contents - but \
that's<br>based on the way our packages are delivered and the advice we got from \
our<br> lawyers about complying with the licenses and the laws of the \
various<br>countries we do business in.<br><font color="#888888"><br>--<br></font> \
<div> <div></div>
<div class="h5"> -Alan Coopersmith- \
<a href="mailto:alan.coopersmith@sun.com">alan.coopersmith@sun.com</a><br> \
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System \
Engineering<br><br><br></div></div></blockquote> </div><br>
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