[PATCH] LICENSE: switch to Microsoft Public License

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Sun Apr 1 14:34:47 CDT 2018


From 5db15de2eb9c622378e72e0a67d70bcbcf3a526d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2018 14:31:04 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] LICENSE: switch to Microsoft Public License

For better interoperability with our API overlords

Signed-off-by: Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com>
---
 LICENSE | 32 ++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index 765b9c3978..a9dd7f3328 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,17 +1,21 @@
-Copyright (c) 1993-2018 the Wine project authors (see the file AUTHORS
-for a complete list)
+Microsoft Public License (MS-PL)
+This license governs use of the accompanying software. If you use the
software, you
+accept this license. If you do not accept the license, do not use the
software.

-Wine is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
-the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the
-Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at
-your option) any later version.
+1. Definitions
+The terms "reproduce," "reproduction," "derivative works," and
"distribution" have the
+same meaning here as under U.S. copyright law.
+A "contribution" is the original software, or any additions or changes
to the software.
+A "contributor" is any person that distributes its contribution under
this license.
+"Licensed patents" are a contributor's patent claims that read directly
on its contribution.

-This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
-WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
-Lesser General Public License for more details.
+2. Grant of Rights
+(A) Copyright Grant- Subject to the terms of this license, including
the license conditions and limitations in section 3, each contributor
grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free copyright license to
reproduce its contribution, prepare derivative works of its
contribution, and distribute its contribution or any derivative works
that you create.
+(B) Patent Grant- Subject to the terms of this license, including the
license conditions and limitations in section 3, each contributor grants
you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license under its licensed
patents to make, have made, use, sell, offer for sale, import, and/or
otherwise dispose of its contribution in the software or derivative
works of the contribution in the software.

-A copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License is included in the
-Wine distribution in the file COPYING.LIB. If you did not receive this
-copy, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St,
-Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
+3. Conditions and Limitations
+(A) No Trademark License- This license does not grant you rights to use
any contributors' name, logo, or trademarks.
+(B) If you bring a patent claim against any contributor over patents
that you claim are infringed by the software, your patent license from
such contributor to the software ends automatically.
+(C) If you distribute any portion of the software, you must retain all
copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices that are present
in the software.
+(D) If you distribute any portion of the software in source code form,
you may do so only under this license by including a complete copy of
this license with your distribution. If you distribute any portion of
the software in compiled or object code form, you may only do so under a
license that complies with this license.
+(E) The software is licensed "as-is." You bear the risk of using it.
The contributors give no express warranties, guarantees or conditions.
You may have additional consumer rights under your local laws which this
license cannot change. To the extent permitted under your local laws,
the contributors exclude the implied warranties of merchantability,
fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.
-- 
2.16.3


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