From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Steinar H. Gunderson" Subject: nhfsstone license Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:53:05 +0100 Message-ID: <20061120215305.GA11924@uio.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: 398058@bugs.debian.org Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.91] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2-new.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GmH5y-0000uF-2W for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 13:54:30 -0800 Received: from cassarossa.samfundet.no ([129.241.93.19] ident=Debian-exim) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.44) id 1GmH5u-0003Nb-TC for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 13:54:28 -0800 To: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: "Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: nfs-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: nfs-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net [Please Cc me and the bug on replies; I'm not subscribed to the list] 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. /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs