On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Anders Hammarquist wrote: > I'm looking into packaging CMU's coda distributed filesystem. It is based on > AFS, with enhancements to allow disconnected use. There are kernel drivers > for > it in the 2.1.x series and they are available as patches for the 2.0.x series. > > Seeing that there are other kernel module packages available for the > distributed 2.0.x kernel, would it be useful to package up a kernel-module of > coda for 2.0? (I'll probably look in to that as well... Though I tend to be > on > the bleeding edge myself.) > > Now, on to the copyright question. The following is an excerpt from one file > (coda-src/vice/srvproc.cc to be exact). The CMU licence does not seem to pose > a problem, but the IBM notice is rather unclear. The only thing that is > obvious is that CMU can distribute the source. It would also appear that > derrived works are allowed. Thoughts please... > > Regards, > /Anders
<snip> The first part seems dfsg compliant to me. > IBM COPYRIGHT NOTICE > > Copyright (C) 1986 > International Business Machines Corporation > All Rights Reserved > > This file contains some code identical to or derived from the 1986 > version of the Andrew File System ("AFS"), which is owned by the IBM > Corporation. This code is provded "AS IS" and IBM does not warrant > that it is free of infringement of any intellectual rights of any > third party. IBM disclaims liability of any kind for any damages > whatsoever resulting directly or indirectly from use of this software > or of any derivative work. Carnegie Mellon University has obtained > permission to distribute this code, which is based on Version 2 of AFS > and does not contain the features and enhancements that are part of > Version 3 of AFS. Version 3 of AFS is commercially available and > supported by Transarc Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA. The way I read this, it is only a disclaimer and a statement that says CMU has permission to distribute the software. It does not impose any restrictions on modification or distribution of the code. But I am not a lawyer. Remco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]