Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH 17/25] package/x11r7/xapp_xsm: bump version to 1.0.5

[Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>]

>>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> writes:

 > Bernd, All,
 > +Arnout +Peter +Luca

 > On 2022-05-12 20:53 +0200, Bernd Kuhls spake thusly:
 >> Release notes:
 >> https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2022-April/003152.html
 >> 
 >> Updated license hash due to upstream commit:
 >> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xsm/-/commit/e552f2d4980d41d7a219dbe0c5dbaf33c4d752f3

 > I was a bit surprised that the new licensing terms are not really those
 > of the MIT license, so I checked, and that's what SPDX knows as the MIT
 > license:
 >     https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT.html

 > However, the license for the xsm is not exactly those terms, but is
 > known by SPDX as MIT-open-group (MIT Open Group variant):
 >     https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT-open-group.html

 > So I had a quick look at a few other xapps, and they all use that same
 > license.

 > Wikipedia still lists it as MIT:
 >     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.Org_Server

 > And the Xorg website also insists it is MIT:
 >     https://www.x.org/wiki/

 > So, I am not sure. I would tend to think we should switch listing them
 > as MIT-open-group.

 > Thoughts?

It is a bit pedantic as there's no real functional difference, but yeah
- Would be more correct.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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