From: zooko <zooko@zooko.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:39:13 +0000 (+0530)
Subject: zfec: update licensing text
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zfec: update licensing text

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diff --git a/zfec/COPYING b/zfec/COPYING
index 30d8b9f..f8fd5e7 100644
--- a/zfec/COPYING
+++ b/zfec/COPYING
@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
-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.  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
-distribute executables, as long as you follow the requirements of this
-licence in regard to all of the software in the executable aside from
-OpenSSL.
+In addition to the terms of the GNU General Public License, this licence also
+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 ("grace period").  If you
+are obligated to release code under section 2.b of this licence, you are 
+obligated to release it under these same terms, including the 12-month
+grace period clause.
+
+This licence also comes with the added permission that you may link this
+program with the OpenSSL library and distribute executables, as long as you
+follow the requirements of this licence in regard to all of the software in
+the executable aside from OpenSSL.
 
 
 		    GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
diff --git a/zfec/README.txt b/zfec/README.txt
index 9ea057c..2bd5763 100644
--- a/zfec/README.txt
+++ b/zfec/README.txt
@@ -3,13 +3,15 @@
 This package implements an "erasure code", or "forward error correction
 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.  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.
+This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
+the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
+Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
+version, 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.  If you are obligated to
+release code under section 2.b of this licence, you are obligated to release
+it 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
diff --git a/zfec/setup.py b/zfec/setup.py
index 96234cd..7daed4c 100755
--- a/zfec/setup.py
+++ b/zfec/setup.py
@@ -6,14 +6,16 @@
 # Author: Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
 # 
 # This file is part of zfec.
-# 
+#
 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
 # under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
 # Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option)
 # any later version, 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 file
-# COPYING for details.
+# delay the fulfillment of this obligation for up to 12 months.  If you are
+# obligated to release code under section 2.b of this licence, you are
+# obligated to release it under these same terms, including the 12-month grace
+# period clause.  See the COPYING file for details.
 #
 # If you would like to inquire about a commercial relationship with Allmydata,
 # Inc., please contact partnerships@allmydata.com and visit