We were happily reviewing a licensing update in some X.org code and came across a discrepancy between the 'MIT' license as published on opensource.org and the current best-practices 'MIT' license as used by X.org projects and as described by the SPDX license text.
The difference appears in the second paragraph. OSI: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. X: https://www.x.org/archive/current/doc/xorg-docs/License.html The above copyright notice and this permission notice (including the next paragraph) shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. SPDX: https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT.html The above copyright notice and this permission notice (including the next paragraph) shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. The parenthetical clause, “(including the next paragraph),” was added as a result of discussions between various stakeholders as referenced here: https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg/2007-July/026300.html -- -keith
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