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Dear all, |
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I've started working on one of my to-do items that is usually very |
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low-priority : cleaning up X-related licenses in portage. |
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This is one of the last remains of the Xorg split from a few years ago. |
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X being a big hairy mess, those who managed the transition a few years |
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ago decided that each X package would have its own license file. Not |
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being a lawyer myself, I very much understand why they made that choice. |
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Now that the very few legal issues surrounding Xorg have been ironed |
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out, we can safely clean up all those license files into one : MIT. |
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So here's the list of license that I'm planning on killing because they |
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are - word for word - identical to MIT : |
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fontconfig |
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libdrm |
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libICE |
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libSM |
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libX11 |
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libXau |
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libXaw |
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libXcomposite |
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libXcursor |
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libXdamage |
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libXdmcp |
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libXext |
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libXfixes |
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libXft |
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libXi |
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libXinerama |
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libXmu |
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libXp |
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libXpm |
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libXrandr |
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libXrender |
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libXScrnSaver |
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libXt |
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libXtst |
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libXv |
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libXvMC |
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libXxf86dga |
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libXxf86vm |
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X11 |
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And here's a list of packages that use one or more of these licenses. |
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Please let me know if/when you've fixed them. I'll open bugs next week |
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for the remaining packages, and I'll just fix the rest myself within a |
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month. |
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app-editors/emacs |
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app-editors/emacs-cvs |
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app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs |
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app-i18n/atokx2 |
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app-i18n/atokx3 |
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app-misc/srm |
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app-text/docbook-sgml-dtd |
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app-text/docbook-xml-dtd |
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app-text/docbook-xml-simple-dtd |
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dev-java/jal |
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dev-libs/libpthread-stubs |
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dev-ml/findlib |
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dev-perl/X11-Protocol |
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games-arcade/pydance |
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games-arcade/pydance-songs |
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media-fonts/efont-unicode |
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media-fonts/sgi-fonts |
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media-gfx/xli |
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media-libs/nas |
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net-misc/curl |
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x11-libs/agg |
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x11-libs/libsvg-cairo |
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x11-libs/openmotif |
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x11-libs/openmotif-compat |
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x11-misc/gbdfed |
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x11-misc/googleearth |
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x11-misc/sux |
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x11-terms/hanterm |
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x11-terms/kterm |
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x11-themes/gentoo-xcursors |
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Help will be most appreciated :) |
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Cheers, |
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Rémi |
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