Licensing Question

[Harold L Hunt II]

Andrew,

Armstrong, Andrew wrote:

> The licensing page - http://cygwin.com/licensing.html - mention some tools
> have an X11 style copyright. Would it be possible to clarify which tools are
> cover red by the X11 style copyright and where we can find a copy of this
> copyright used by the tools?
> 

I don't think anyone is going to list exactly which packages for Cygwin 
use which license.  However, it is generally pretty easy to tell that 
any package in the XFree86 category tends to use the X11 style license, 
while packages outside of this category can be almost anything (X, BSD, 
GPL, LGPL, etc.).  Almost every Cygwin package is an independent 
project, so you can either find information on the website for that 
project, or you can go to the usual open-source/free software websites 
that generally list this sort of information.

For example, you can go to http://freshmeat.net and do a query for "xterm":

http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=xterm&section=projects&x=0&y=0

This gives back a listing of projects matching that term, with the 
license used by each.  xterm is listed as "License:  	MIT/X Consortium 
License".

I think this information should be sufficient for you to finish this on 
your own.

> Updating the web page with the contents of the X11 style copyright will be
> useful.

Below is the text of a standard X license, from one of the files in 
XWin.exe:

/*
  *Copyright (C) 1994-2000 The XFree86 Project, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
  *
  *Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
  * a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
  *"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
  *without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
  *distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
  *permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
  *the following conditions:
  *
  *The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
  *included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
  *
  *THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
  *EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
  *MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
  *NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE XFREE86 PROJECT BE LIABLE FOR
  *ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF
  *CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
  *WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
  *
  *Except as contained in this notice, the name of the XFree86 Project
  *shall not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use
  *or other dealings in this Software without prior written authorization
  *from the XFree86 Project.
  *
  * Authors:	Dakshinamurthy Karra
  *		Suhaib M Siddiqi
  *		Peter Busch
  *		Harold L Hunt II
  *		Kensuke Matsuzaki
  */

Oh, you can also look at the source code files on http://xfree86.org to 
see the license used in each file for a project.  For example, the above 
file is at:

http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xwin/winscrinit.c?rev=1.26&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup


I hope that helps,

Harold