Re: [Freeglut-developer] Fwd: [freeglut:bugs] #237 License Text

[Diederick C. N. <dc...@gm...>]

Hi John,

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 12:53 AM, John Tsiombikas
<nu...@me...> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 10:23:23PM +0200, Diederick C. Niehorster wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Please see the below. I see the difference as insubstantial. The text
>> as it is, is a little odd though. Shall we just fix up that end
>> sentence to read as the X11 license does?
>
> Purely legally speaking (and that's just my understanding, I'm not a
> lawyer), to change anything other than trivial spelling mistakes in the
> wording of the licence, we would need the consent of every copyright
> holder, which for a project that doesn't do GNU-style copyright
> assignment forms to a single entity, would be every contributor of
> anything more than a couple of lines ever.

You're probably right. I'll make a tiny change to the website then to
not suggest its not a verbatim X11 license. Thanks!
Dee