[License-review] For Approval: libpng license, version 2.0

[John Cowan]

On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 12:12 PM Smith, McCoy <mccoy.smith at intel.com> wrote:

I found this submission very confusing, in part because it seems to be a
> series of licenses and/or disclaimers sequentially superimposed on other
> licenses or disclaimers, each of which appears to indicate that it applies
> to different versions of a particular piece of software.
>

When I looked at the Python license tangle, which was many years ago, I
concluded that only the most recent license was actually applicable, and
that the other licenses were inert but could not be removed because they
themselves said they could not be, like so many DNA viruses -- they get
copied when Python is but have no function at all.

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