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X license.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Otto Hammersmith)
Tue Nov 19 17:17:44 1996
From: Otto Hammersmith <ohammers@cu-online.com>
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Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 16:07:19 -0600 (CST)
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This question is not entirely Red Hat related, but it's close enough,
IMO.
I'm curious about the MIT X license terms. It was my understanding
that you could districute the X source and compiled binaries however
you pleased... but the moment you wanted to make money from a modified
form, without distributing source code, you had to pay to join the X
Consoritum.
However, the copyright notice on the X source doesn't imply this. It
implies that you can do whatever you please with it, as long as you
include the copyright notice and don't use their name in advertising.
--- begin quote ---
Copyright (C) 1996 X Consortium
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Soft-
ware"), 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 X CONSORTIUM 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 X Consortium 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 X Consortium.
X Window System is a trademark of X Consortium, Inc.
--- end quote ---
My question is, what prevents a company from modifing X a little bit,
then selling binary-only X servers?
Basically, why it comes down to this: why are X Inside, XFree, and so
on, members of the X consortium? (other than the access to
prereleases) Couldn't they do their business just as Red Hat does?
Thanks in advance.
--
-Otto
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