intent to package: coda (+ copyright question)
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
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/*
Coda: an Experimental Distributed File System
Release 4.0
Copyright (c) 1987-1996 Carnegie Mellon University
All Rights Reserved
Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and its
documentation is hereby granted, provided that both the copyright
notice and this permission notice appear in all copies of the
software, derivative works or modified versions, and any portions
thereof, and that both notices appear in supporting documentation, and
that credit is given to Carnegie Mellon University in all documents
and publicity pertaining to direct or indirect use of this code or its
derivatives.
CODA IS AN EXPERIMENTAL SOFTWARE SYSTEM AND IS KNOWN TO HAVE BUGS,
SOME OF WHICH MAY HAVE SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES. CARNEGIE MELLON ALLOWS
FREE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE IN ITS "AS IS" CONDITION. CARNEGIE MELLON
DISCLAIMS ANY LIABILITY OF ANY KIND FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER
RESULTING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY FROM THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE OR OF
ANY DERIVATIVE WORK.
Carnegie Mellon encourages users of this software to return any
improvements or extensions that they make, and to grant Carnegie
Mellon the rights to redistribute these changes without encumbrance.
*/
static char *rcsid = "$Header: /afs/cs/project/coda-src/cvs/coda/coda-src/vice/
s
rvproc.cc,v 4.10 1998/01/12 23:35:42 braam Exp $";
#endif /*_BLURB_*/
/*
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.
*/
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