Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Is this just MIT?
This is SGI Free Software License B version 2.0 which is described on
GNU.org in a following way [1]:
The SGI Free Software License B version 2.0 is a free software
license. It is essentially identical to the X11 License [2], with
an optional alternative way of providing license notices.
and marked with a green line as compatible with GNU GPL.
Is it ‘just MIT’ or not, depends on what you call ‘just MIT’. There are
at least two popular MIT licenses: Expat [3] and X11 [4]; if both are
‘just MIT’ to you, then SGI FSL-B 2.0 is too. Its last paragraph is a
non-endorsement clause identical to that of the latter one. It’s the
second paragraph that makes SGI FSL-B 2.0 different from either Expat
and X11; to be precise it makes it slightly more permissive, allowing
hyperlinking to license (à la Creative Commons Attribution) instead of
providing its full text. (However, I have no idea, who might take
advantage from this permission – the full legal text is just 25 lines
long.)
[1]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#SGIFreeB
[2]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#X11License
[3]: https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/License:Expat
[4]: https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/License:X11
On 22/02/15 17:19, Miro Hrončok wrote:
Hi,
is this just MIT [1]?
Or the last paragraph makes it different?
[1] https://github.com/memononen/libtess2/blob/master/LICENSE.txt
Thanks,