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License change
The README currently specifies this as being released under public domain, which can lead to issues in some countries (including the US, where I am). I'm proposing that we release this under MIT instead, as this is the license used by the X11 libraries that are wrapped by this project. Please reply with "yes" if you agree to this change. If I get a "yes" from most contributors but not all, I'll rewrite any remaining contributions myself before pushing this change.
Edit: The main concern is that "public domain" does not provide the protection of a warrantly clause. I don't know of a particular time that this has been a problem, but it's better to be safe.
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Yes!
unless somebody else takes over as maintainer.
If you want someone to do that, I'm probably a good candidate, seeing as I've become the maintainer of winit (and I imagine winit is probably your biggest consumer?). I also noticed you talking about the idea of a high-level API over in https://github.com/Daggerbot/x11-rs/issues/81#issuecomment-394851470, and you might be happy to hear that I've gradually been creating such an API in an effort to keep winit more maintainable. It's still a bit rough and narrow in scope (since it's only been designed for internal usage), but I've been planning to spin it off into its own crate eventually.
Yes
By the way, the Cargo.toml files say
license = "CC0-1.0"
Which is not the same as just "public domain". Like other similar licenses (e.g. Unlicense), CC0 contains "fallback" terms for jurisdictions where you can't put your work into public domain.
Sorry, I'm not a contributor or anything, but doesn't "public domain" mean I can just take the code and assume it as MIT (or proprietary, or however I want)?
If there are some good well-known links on this, I'd read.
You don't need permission to go from public domain to MIT, no. And in particular, while it's polite to ask contributors and get consensus, you certainly don't need to rewrite code.
