Re: fontfile.diff applicable license, and general security issues

On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 12:04:16PM +0000, John Bradford wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Could somebody please clarify the license that applies to:
>
>ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.3.0/fixes/fontfile.diff
>
>(It is noted on the XFree86.org site that the 1.1 license applies to
>all versions of the software including and after 4.3.99.903, and that
>the 1.0 license applies to 4.3.99.902, and prior XFree86 versions.
>Since this patch has a timestamp which is inbetween these versions, it
>is not clear which license applies to it.

Quoting from http://www.xfree86.org/legal/licenses.html :

  XFree86 as a whole contains software covered by a range of
  different licenses and not a single license. This licence change
  applies only to those portions of the code that are copyrighted
  by The XFree86 Project, Inc. itself. Even so, some portions of
  this code continue to carry the 1.0 license. Refer to each source
  file for specific licence details.

So, check the actual files in whatever branches of the CVS repository you
are interested in for details if you have concerns.

David