[Fedora-legal-list] License clarification for xvt

Mamoru TASAKA mtasaka at fedoraproject.org
Sat May 4 14:22:57 UTC 2013


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.

Regards,
Mamoru




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