[Fedora-legal-list] BSD license?

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Sun Jun 28 07:08:53 UTC 2009


On 06/27/2009 08:04 AM, Christian Krause wrote:
> [ I'm resending this mail since it looks like the first one got lost. ]
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm reviewing the package xscope and I'm unsure whether the supplied
> license [1] can be considered 100% as the BSD license (the wording is
> different to the examples in https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/BSD )
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 	
> [1] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xscope/tree/COPYING

Well, the reason the wordingof that license doesn't match the BSD
license examples is because it isn't BSD, but rather, the MIT license:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/MIT

~spot




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