crazy copyrights
I need feedback on this. They appear to have two contradictory licenses, GPL
and what they think the GPL says.
NTOP LICENSE
Copyright (C) 1998 Luca Deri
(portions Stefano Suin <stefano@unipi.it>)
ntop has been written by Luca Deri <deri@unipi.it> with some help
of Stefano Suin <stefano@unipi.it> with the purpose to create a tool able
to effectively monitor networks. ntop belongs to the author
(Luca Deri <deri@unipi.it>) who allow you to use it according to the
licence below (GPL2).
This licence basically ALLOWS you to:
- use ntop for both educational and commercial purposes
- study, modify, redistribute ntop's source code.
- build new applications based on ntop.
What you CANNOT do with ntop is:
- charge a fee for using ntop except for the physical act of
transferring a copy.
What you SHOULD do with ntop is:
- use and have fun with it, hoping it's useful for you
- send suggestions, bug reports, patches, enhancements to
the authors
In other words you must keep ntop free of charge. If you have some
questions or if you plan to integrate ntop in a commercial
product (a.k.a you charge a fee for using the product) then you
must contact the authors.
Luca Deri <deri@unipi.it>
Pisa, December 1998.
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GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2, June 1991
[entire text of gpl included here]
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