COPYING: Update license preamble

Update the comment about "a modification is currently under discussion"
since there hasn't been any such discussion for some time and this is
the consensus agreed upon preferred format.

Also throw in a pointer to the OSI discussion page about the MIT license.

Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@sun.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
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Alan Coopersmith 2009-11-23 22:24:44 -08:00
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The following is the 'standard copyright' agreed upon by most contributors,
and is currently the canonical license, though a modification is currently
under discussion. Copyright holders of new code should use this license
statement where possible, and append their name to this list. Please sort
by surname for people, and by the full name for other entities (e.g.
Juliusz Chroboczek sorts before Intel Corporation sorts before Daniel
Stone).
and is currently the canonical license preferred by the X.Org Foundation.
This is a slight variant of the common MIT license form published by the
Open Source Initiative at http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
Copyright holders of new code should use this license statement where
possible, and insert their name to this list. Please sort by surname
for people, and by the full name for other entities (e.g. Juliusz
Chroboczek sorts before Intel Corporation sorts before Daniel Stone).
Copyright © 2000-2001 Juliusz Chroboczek
Copyright © 1998 Egbert Eich