Nirbheek Chauhan a écrit :
The x11 team[1] came to the conclusion that following RedHat's lead and just using MIT as license for Xorg packages should suffice since they are quite careful about these things. This should definitely be better than the current practice anyway.
That's indeed my plan. All the X packages I've checked in Fedora's cvs have MIT as the license. I think this will definitely help clean up gentoo-x86/license.
As long as we all agree that LICENSE is only informational (ie, we try to do our best but comes with no guarantee). For the record, even simple X packages such as libs and/or protos may have 2 or more similar-but-not-identical license headers in various files, dozens of copyright holders.
So anyone doing _serious_ license work on X packages shouldn't even rely on what we currently provide as those licenses may not reflect the actual license of all files in our packages.
Bottom line, everyone considers them to be MIT/X11 which seems to be fairly accurate.
My plan is to go over each package as time permits, check the license and then make the x-modular eclass set the default license to MIT instead of ${PN}.
I could definitely use a hand to check all those packages :) Cheers, Rémi
