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[1/2] xserver-xorg/xwayland: 'Clarify' xserver license

Message ID 20260526122705.4171028-1-richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org
State Under Review
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Series [1/2] xserver-xorg/xwayland: 'Clarify' xserver license | expand

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Richard Purdie May 26, 2026, 12:27 p.m. UTC 
The Xserver license, https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/blob/main/COPYING
is a bit of a challenge to decode. Whilst overall thought to be MIT, there
are many other simlar/related licences included in there.

The make our license data more accurate, update to include all the license
variants present.

I have submitted a patch upstream to add identifiers to the COPYING file to
make it clearer where these come from and save others from repeating this painful
exercise:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/2218

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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 meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-xserver/xserver-xorg.inc | 2 +-
 meta/recipes-graphics/xwayland/xwayland_24.1.9.bb   | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-xserver/xserver-xorg.inc b/meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-xserver/xserver-xorg.inc
index f720c9cef4d..50e2dcb9752 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-xserver/xserver-xorg.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-xserver/xserver-xorg.inc
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ 
 SUMMARY = "The X.Org X server"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.x.org"
 SECTION = "x11/base"
-LICENSE = "MIT"
+LICENSE = "MIT & Adobe-Display-PostScript & BSD-3-Clause & DEC-3-Clause & HPND & HPND-Netrek & HPND-sell-MIT-disclaimer-xserver & HPND-sell-variant & HPND-UC & ICU & ISC & MIT-open-group & NTP & SGI-B-2.0 & SMLNJ & X11 & X11-no-permit-persons & X11-swapped"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=f8778cfcd90ece0e4b225f30182227ca"
 
 # xf86-*-* packages depend on an X server built with the xfree86 DDX
diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/xwayland/xwayland_24.1.9.bb b/meta/recipes-graphics/xwayland/xwayland_24.1.9.bb
index c4e2d7cfdb9..b12b0d0cc70 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-graphics/xwayland/xwayland_24.1.9.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/xwayland/xwayland_24.1.9.bb
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@  the transition from X Window System to Wayland environments, providing \
 a way to run unported applications in the meantime."
 HOMEPAGE = "https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/XwaylandStandalone"
 
-LICENSE = "MIT"
+LICENSE = "MIT & Adobe-Display-PostScript & BSD-3-Clause & DEC-3-Clause & HPND & HPND-Netrek & HPND-sell-MIT-disclaimer-xserver & HPND-sell-variant & HPND-UC & ICU & ISC & MIT-open-group & NTP & SGI-B-2.0 & SMLNJ & X11 & X11-no-permit-persons & X11-swapped"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=21e33dcccf2d5034f798a8ea62622939"
 
 SRC_URI = "https://www.x.org/archive/individual/xserver/xwayland-${PV}.tar.xz"