Attachment 157674 Details for Bug 166058 – Patch to COPYING checked into hg

[patch] Patch to COPYING checked into hg

COPYING.patch (text/plain), 3.36 KB, created by Theodore Tso on 2007-06-23 05:15:00 UTC

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># HG changeset patch
># User tytso@mit.edu
># Date 1182575093 14400
># Node ID e7fff9f66ba6b0df3d398048233a7d90e9e4b72a
># Parent  98d5fa14e7dedde4754cd42f4d2af2622c4ba3ee
>Clarify the copyright licenses used by the various libraries in COPYING
>
>Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
>
>diff -r 98d5fa14e7de -r e7fff9f66ba6 COPYING
>--- a/COPYING	Fri Jun 22 22:32:43 2007 -0400
>+++ b/COPYING	Sat Jun 23 01:04:53 2007 -0400
>@@ -1,33 +1,25 @@ This package, the EXT2 filesystem utilit
> This package, the EXT2 filesystem utilities, are made available under
>-the GNU Public License version 2, with the exception of the lib/uuid
>-directory which is made available under a BSD-style license and the
>-lib/et and lib/ss libraries which are made available under an
>-MIT-style license.  Please see lib/uuid/COPYING for more details for
>-the license for the files comprising the libuuid library, and the
>-source file headers of the libet and libss libraries for more
>-information.
>-
>-However, I request that if the version string in the file version.h
>-contains the string "pre-", or "WIP" that this version of e2fsprogs be
>-distributed in source form only.  Please feel free to give a copy of
>-the e2fsck binary to help a friend recover his or her filesystem, as
>-the need arises.  However, "pre" or "WIP" indicates that this release
>-is under development, and available for ALPHA testing.  So for your
>-protection as much as mine, I'd prefer that it not appear in a some
>-distribution --- especially not a CD-ROM distribution!
>+the GNU Public License version 2, with the exception of the lib/ext2fs
>+and lib/e2p libraries, which are made available under the GNU Library
>+General Public License Version 2, the lib/uuid library which is made
>+available under a BSD-style license and the lib/et and lib/ss
>+libraries which are made available under an MIT-style license.  Please
>+see lib/uuid/COPYING for more details for the license for the files
>+comprising the libuuid library, and the source file headers of the
>+libet and libss libraries for more information.
> 
> The most recent officially distributed version can be found at
> http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net.  If you need to make a distribution,
> that's the one you should use.  If there is some reason why you'd like
>-a more recent version that is still in ALPHA testing for your
>-distribution, please contact me (tytso@mit.edu), and we will very
>-likely be able to work out something that will work for all concerned.
>-The release schedules for this package are flexible, if you give me
>-enough lead time.
>+a more recent version that is still in ALPHA testing (i.e., either
>+using the "WIP" test distributions or one from the hg or git
>+repository from the development branch, please contact me
>+(tytso@mit.edu) before you ship.  The release schedules for this
>+package are flexible, if you give me enough lead time.
> 
> 
> 					Theodore Ts'o
>-					15-Mar-2003
>+					23-June-2007
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>diff -r 98d5fa14e7de -r e7fff9f66ba6 ChangeLog
>--- a/ChangeLog	Fri Jun 22 22:32:43 2007 -0400
>+++ b/ChangeLog	Sat Jun 23 01:04:53 2007 -0400
>@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ 2007-05-22  Theodore Tso  <tytso@mit.edu
>+2007-06-23  Theodore Tso  <tytso@mit.edu>
>+
>+	* COPYING: Clarify copyright licenses used by the various
>+		libraries in e2fsprogs.
>+
> 2007-05-22  Theodore Tso  <tytso@mit.edu>
> 
> 	* Makefile.in (rpm): Add production rule for e2fsprogs.spec, in

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