Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of PXE client and server samples.

[Loic Dachary]

        Hi,

        The license you refer to as MIT License (which is less
ambiguously called the Expat license
(http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#Expat) is as follows:

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

        However, the distributed file dhcp-3.0pxe1.tar.bz2 contains a 
license information that contains the following (COPYRIGHT file):

/*
 * Copyright (c) 1996-1999 Internet Software Consortium.
 * Use is subject to license terms which appear in the file named
 * ISC-LICENSE that should have accompanied this file when you
 * received it.   If a file named ISC-LICENSE did not accompany this
 * file, or you are not sure the one you have is correct, you may
 * obtain an applicable copy of the license at:
 *
 *             http://www.isc.org/isc-license-1.0.html. 
 *
 * This file is part of the ISC DHCP distribution.   The documentation
 * associated with this file is listed in the file DOCUMENTATION,
 * included in the top-level directory of this release.
 *
 * Support and other services are available for ISC products - see
 * http://www.isc.org for more information.
 */

        And http://www.isc.org/isc-license-1.0.html contains the following:

Copyright (c) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999
The Internet Software Consortium - DHCP. All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

   1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
      notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

   2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above
      copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following
      disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided
      with the distribution.

   3. Neither the name of The Internet Software Consortium - DHCP nor
      the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote
      products derived from this software without specific prior
      written permission.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE INTERNET SOFTWARE CONSORTIUM AND
CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING,
BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
INTERNET SOFTWARE CONSORTIUM OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT,
INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
(INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR
SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT,
STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING
IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

        Which is usually refered to as the modified BSD license 
(see http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.6/COPYRIGHT2.html#5 and 
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#ModifiedBSD).

        Could you please submit your project again with the appropriate
license information ?

        Thanks for your patience,

address@hidden writes:
 > 
 > A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
 > This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
 > 
 > 
 > michael johnston <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
 > License: other
 > Other License: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html
 > 
 > I do not see a need to require anything more than the MIT license. 
 > Package: PXE client and server samples.
 > System name: pxe-toolkit
 > This package does NOT want to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
 > 
 > Provide working samples of PXE (Preboot eXecution Environment) client and 
 > server software.
 > 
 > At present, this project is under SourceForge at: 
 > http://pxe-toolkit.sourceforge.net/web-site.html
 > 
 > 

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