nhfsstone license

["Steinar H. Gunderson" <sesse@debian.org>]

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Hi,

It has recently come to my attention that the DISCLAIMER file of nhfsstone
(distributed with nfs-utils) is distributed a non-free license. Specifically,
the wording says "Legato nhfsstone may be modified only for the purpose of
porting", and while we believe that they meant "you can only call this Legato
nhfsstone if you don't modify it except for porting reasons" (given the rest
of the text) this is unfortunately not what the words say.

debian/copyright (which used to be in upstream CVS) claims that the entire
package is under GPL; however, I cannot find anything about a relicensing
anywhere. I've tried contacting Legato (at nhfsstone@legato.com), but given
that this software seems to have been made in 1989, it's perhaps not that odd
that I haven't received any reply from them.

Does anybody know what the current license status of nhfsstone is? If we
cannot get this resolved, we'd have to remove nhfsstone from Debian main,
which would be rather painful (if nothing else because we'd have to modify
the upstream tarball), so I'd really hope we could find some sort of
solution.

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