zfec: clarify licensing requirements (transitive grace period)

diff --git a/src/zfec/COPYING b/src/zfec/COPYING
index b4344741d2f885f464823ea7759c50b42addcf34..30d8b9fc28971f8a60b223b52d6632dadddd9782 100644 (file)
--- a/src/zfec/COPYING
+++ b/src/zfec/COPYING
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 In addition to the terms written below, this licence comes with the added
 permission that, if you become obligated to release a derived work under this
 licence (as per section 2.b), you may delay the fulfillment of this
-obligation for up to 12 months.
+obligation for up to 12 months.  If you are obligated to release code under
+section 2.b of this licence, such code must be released under these same terms
+including the 12-month grace period clause.
 
 In addition to the terms written below, this licence comes with the added
 permission that you may link this program with the OpenSSL library and

diff --git a/src/zfec/README.txt b/src/zfec/README.txt
index c08543e29cc1dc37cbecc31cd1b043c5657a46f7..a7a6bb46d24ae2645666319ca8dd16210cfdce84 100644 (file)
--- a/src/zfec/README.txt
+++ b/src/zfec/README.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,10 @@ code".
 It is offered under the GNU General Public License (v2 or later), with the
 added permission that, if you become obligated to release a derived work
 under this licence (as per section 2.b), you may delay the fulfillment of
-this obligation for up to 12 months.  See the COPYING file for details.
+this obligation for up to 12 months.  If you are obligated to release code 
+under section 2.b of this licence, such code must be released under these 
+same terms including the 12-month grace period clause.  See the COPYING 
+file for details.
 
 The most widely known example of an erasure code is the RAID-5 algorithm
 which makes it so that in the event of the loss of any one hard drive, the