[License-discuss] MIT license difference between X.org, SPDX and OSI

[Keith Packard]

We were happily reviewing a licensing update in some X.org code and came
across a discrepancy between the 'MIT' license as published on
opensource.org and the current best-practices 'MIT' license as used by
X.org projects and as described by the SPDX license text.

The difference appears in the second paragraph.

OSI: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

	The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
	included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

X: https://www.x.org/archive/current/doc/xorg-docs/License.html

	The above copyright notice and this permission notice (including
	the next paragraph) shall be included in all copies or
	substantial portions of the Software.

SPDX: https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT.html

	The above copyright notice and this permission notice (including
	the next paragraph) shall be included in all copies or
	substantial portions of the Software.

The parenthetical clause, “(including the next paragraph),” was added as a
result of discussions between various stakeholders as referenced here:

	https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg/2007-July/026300.html

-- 
-keith
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