Question about the license.

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Alan James Caruana wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was wondering as to which license applies to the software I downloaded.
>
> I got the source code I am using from Xorg.  More specifically, I
> downloaded the xorg-server package from the release site of Xorg.  I
> know that Cygwin and Cygwin/X are published under the GNU GPL.  I

oh.  Which Cygwin/X source-file has a GPL on it?
(Cygwin of course is GPL, but that's an comment of the source used).

> also know that the X project, led by the X.org Foundation is published
> under the MIT License. Does the XWin part of the source I downloaded
> use the GPL license, or the MIT license ?

This is probably the wrong place to ask about licenses (google "Cygwin/X 
gpl" for grins.

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