[Fedora-legal-list] License clarification for xvt

[Tom Callaway]

On 05/04/2013 10:22 AM, Mamoru TASAKA wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> On the review request for xfe:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=958150
> a question was raised on the license of xvt/xvt.c in
> xfe-1.34.tar.gz, which says:
> 
> /*  Copyright 1992, 1994 John Bovey, University of Kent at Canterbury.
>  *
>  *  Redistribution and use in source code and/or executable forms, with
>  *  or without modification, are permitted provided that the following
>  *  condition is met:
>  *
>  *  Any redistribution must retain the above copyright notice, this
>  *  condition and the following disclaimer, either as part of the
>  *  program source code included in the redistribution or in human-
>  *  readable materials provided with the redistribution.
>  *
>  *  THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS".  Any express or implied
>  *  warranties concerning this software are disclaimed by the copyright
>  *  holder to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.  In no
>  *  event shall the copyright-holder be liable for any damages of any
>  *  kind, however caused and on any theory of liability, arising in any
>  *  way out of the use of, or inability to use, this software.
>  *
>  *  -------------------------------------------------------------------
>  *
>  *  In other words, do not misrepresent my work as your own work, and
>  *  do not sue me if it causes problems.  Feel free to do anything else
>  *  you wish with it.
>  */
> 
> I think this can be MIT, however I would appreciate if someone would check
> the license above.

It is BSD. I've added it to the variant list.

~tom

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