From: zooko Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 20:55:46 +0000 (+0530) Subject: zfec: clarify licensing requirements (transitive grace period) X-Git-Url: https://git.rkrishnan.org/vdrive/%22news.html/simplejson/frontends/webapi.txt?a=commitdiff_plain;h=27ad1ecc0f8861586ed653b8b2cfb2104ebd1e4f;p=tahoe-lafs%2Fzfec.git zfec: clarify licensing requirements (transitive grace period) darcs-hash:040bbdce524148b6eaffce10eb6d5beed825b69a --- diff --git a/zfec/COPYING b/zfec/COPYING index b434474..30d8b9f 100644 --- a/zfec/COPYING +++ b/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/zfec/README.txt b/zfec/README.txt index c08543e..a7a6bb4 100644 --- a/zfec/README.txt +++ b/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