Re: intent to package: coda (+ copyright question)
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
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