回复: license of Xorg dummy driver

2022-01-25 Thread Lan Horace
Thanks Adam for your answer. Horace 发件人: Adam Jackson 发送时间: 2022年1月26日 5:01 收件人: Lan Horace 抄送: xorg@lists.x.org 主题: Re: license of Xorg dummy driver The answer to this is probably the same as the answer for any other xorg code you encounter without an

Re: license of Xorg dummy driver

2022-01-25 Thread Adam Jackson
The answer to this is probably the same as the answer for any other xorg code you encounter without an explicit license. I answered this before in some detail for the I2C code in the server: https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg/2019-March/059652.html The dummy driver has a similar history, we

回复: license of Xorg dummy driver

2022-01-20 Thread Lan Horace
@Adam Do you have any comment for the license of dummy driver? Thanks a lot Horace 发件人: xorg 代表 Lan Horace 发送时间: 2022年1月19日 14:56 收件人: xorg@lists.x.org 主题: license of Xorg dummy driver Hi I have a question about the license of Xorg dummy driver. The code is

license of Xorg dummy driver

2022-01-18 Thread Lan Horace
Hi I have a question about the license of Xorg dummy driver. The code is at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-dummy This repo is set as no license. According to http://choosealicense.com/licenses/no-license/ I can't use or modify it. But my understanding is all Xorg li

Re: xf86-video-dummy license clarification

2020-06-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Lars-Dominik Braun, le dim. 14 juin 2020 09:11:05 +0200, a ecrit: > Xorg’s dummy driver lacks a clear open source license statement[1]. Its > COPYING file simply states “Copyright 2002, SuSE Linux AG”, indicating > it is non-free software. Is that correct? I see Debian is distributing >

xf86-video-dummy license clarification

2020-06-15 Thread Lars-Dominik Braun
Hi, Xorg’s dummy driver lacks a clear open source license statement[1]. Its COPYING file simply states “Copyright 2002, SuSE Linux AG”, indicating it is non-free software. Is that correct? I see Debian is distributing the driver under the terms of the X11 license[2], so is Gentoo Linux[3

Re: [fdo] xorg-xf86-input-keyboard license

2019-10-29 Thread Adam Jackson
On Sun, 2019-10-27 at 09:37 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > We should probably delete lnx_kbd.c, both to give license clarity and to stop > people from thinking it's a useful driver to have on Linux systems any more. > > If you're building the X server for a Linux b

Re: [fdo] xorg-xf86-input-keyboard license

2019-10-27 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Sun, October 27, 2019 9:37 am, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Why do you care about the server license if you're writing an application > (i.e. a client)? Not the OP, but I will tell you why it is important. GPL, as you know, is put in place to protect the opensource aspect of the code,

Re: [fdo] xorg-xf86-input-keyboard license

2019-10-27 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Sun, 27 Oct 2019, Alan Coopersmith wrote: GPL does not require clients to follow the licensing conditions of servers they connect to. In regard to this point, I will just point out that I advocate the use of GPL as a form of protection, and the input drivers should fall into that category.

Re: [fdo] xorg-xf86-input-keyboard license

2019-10-27 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Sun, 27 Oct 2019, Alan Coopersmith wrote: You explained the GPL, which I well understand, but not why someone working on client software cares about the license of something on the server side. GPL does not require clients to follow the licensing conditions of servers they connect to. Why

Re: [fdo] xorg-xf86-input-keyboard license

2019-10-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 10/27/19 10:07 AM, Alan DuBoff wrote: On Sun, October 27, 2019 9:37 am, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Why do you care about the server license if you're writing an application (i.e. a client)? Not the OP, but I will tell you why it is important. You explained the GPL, which I well under

Re: [fdo] xorg-xf86-input-keyboard license

2019-10-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
[I've cc'ed the xorg mailing list, where this is a much more on-topic question than the freedesktop general mailing list.] On 10/27/19 6:12 AM, 布施 博明 wrote: Hello I am developing X application now I have one question about xorg-xf86-input-keyboard license Why do you care about

Re: xserver code license question

2019-03-07 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2019-03-07 at 16:38 +, Pinegar, Kent T wrote: > All, > > There are two files in the xserver source code called xf86i2c.h and > xf86i2c.c. They contain copyrights by Itai Nahshon and Michael > Schimek; however, the top-level Xserve license on github does not >

xserver code license question

2019-03-07 Thread Pinegar, Kent T
All, There are two files in the xserver source code called xf86i2c.h and xf86i2c.c. They contain copyrights by Itai Nahshon and Michael Schimek; however, the top-level Xserve license on github does not mention these two developers. Does anyone know what license would cover these files. Kent

Re: xorg/app/xmore: first gitlab merge request - xmore license information

2019-03-06 Thread Adam Jackson
On Wed, 2019-03-06 at 04:20 +0100, Samy Mahmoudi wrote: > In an effort to set proper licensing information within the FreeBSD > port system, I am wondering if someone knows xmore well enough to > properly replace the stub file COPYING with a proper COPYING file. > > • Hand-written files mostly con

xorg/app/xmore: first gitlab merge request - xmore license information

2019-03-05 Thread Samy Mahmoudi
In an effort to set proper licensing information within the FreeBSD port system, I am wondering if someone knows xmore well enough to properly replace the stub file COPYING with a proper COPYING file. • Hand-written files mostly contain headers with variants of X11/MIT. • Files generated by autoto

License

2019-03-04 Thread Nguyen, Theresa X
;xf86i3c.h" a part of X11 software? What is the license for this file? X11 software is released under MIT Style License, is it the license for us to use this file? Can we have permission to use this file? Thank you very much for your prompt reply to my questions above. B

Re: font-bh-lucidatypewriter-dpi75 License

2015-09-30 Thread nicolas . mailhot
You may look at Fedora packages, xorg font licenses were audited there a few years ago. Thus fonts that Fedora chose to keep because their licensing was compatible with Fedora goals should be tagged with the correct license nowadays And Tom Callaway may still have legal data on the fonts that

Re: font-bh-lucidatypewriter-dpi75 License

2015-09-30 Thread wettstae
> I am trying to determine the license for font-bh-lucidatypewriter-dpi75, > which appears to be under the Bigelow & Holmes copyright. Any information > would be appreciated. I do not really know, but as nobody else replies, let me at least provide three pointers: The freedeskt

font-bh-lucidatypewriter-dpi75 License

2015-09-21 Thread Hackley, Tom L
I am trying to determine the license for font-bh-lucidatypewriter-dpi75, which appears to be under the Bigelow & Holmes copyright. Any information would be appreciated. ___ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop