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Re: gated package



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On 24 Mar 1999, Roderick Schertler wrote:

> Date: 24 Mar 1999 12:29:37 -0500
> From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
> To: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: gated package
> 
> On Wed, 24 Mar 1999 04:06:05 +0000 (GMT), "Jeremy T. Bouse" <undrgrid@UnderGrid.net> said:
> >
> > I noticed on the WNPP page that someone had sent in an intent to
> > package the GateD routing daemon...
> 
> There's a package of 3.5.8 at debs.fuller.edu that was made by Dermot
> Bradley.  He'd said it couldn't be part of Debian itself because of
> licensing problems, I presume this applied to it being part of non-free
> as well but I didn't investigate.
> 
> I used his diff to make a local 3.5.9 package with little effort last
> fall.  Here's a simple patch I'd applied on top of it.
> 
	Hmm... I'm actually working with the 3.5.10 code which version 3
of the code is publically available from their version above 3.5 (4 -> 7)
are only available as members of the consortium... The first paragraph in
the Copyright file with 3.5.10 reads as:

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Copyright (c) 1996, 1997 The Regents of the University of Michigan
All Rights Reserved
 
Royalty-free licenses to redistribute GateD Release
3 in whole or in part may be obtained by writing to:

	Merit GateDaemon Project
	4251 Plymouth Road, Suite C
	Ann Arbor, MI 48105
 
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION WARRANTIES OF 
MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE REGENTS OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AND MERIT DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE
FUNCTIONS CONTAINED IN THE SOFTWARE WILL MEET LICENSEE'S REQUIREMENTS OR
THAT OPERATION WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE. The Regents of the
University of Michigan and Merit shall not be liable for
any special, indirect, incidental or consequential damages with respect
to any claim by Licensee or any third party arising from use of the
software. GateDaemon was originated and developed through release 3.0
by Cornell University and its collaborators.

Please forward bug fixes, enhancements and questions to the
gated mailing list: gated-people@gated.merit.edu.

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	And then the following is a lil lower in the same file:

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Portions of this software may fall under the following
copyrights:

Copyright (c) 1988 Regents of the University of California.
All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are
permitted provided that the above copyright notice and
this paragraph are duplicated in all such forms and that
any documentation, advertising materials, and other
materials related to such distribution and use
acknowledge that the software was developed by the
University of California, Berkeley.  The name of the
University may not be used to endorse or promote
products derived from this software without specific
prior written permission.  THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED
``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES,
INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

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	Now I am not a lawyer and I haven't sent this to debian-legal yet
to get their thoughts but it seems to me as long as we derive the work
from 3.5 and not one of the "member only" versions we should have no
problem. As it is gated-3.5.10 is actually packaged within RH5.2 which is
actually the reason I've though about it as I am working with a client to
develop a Linux machines with multiple 10/100 NICs and want'd to use
gated with either OSPF or BGP to manage the routing dynamically; however
in the process the machine we are testing on is install'd with RH and I
hate workin on RH machines so I've been pushin to convert him from the
dark side... this one pacakge seems to be what's holding that up.. and I
thinkin if I might want/need the package there is a good posibility
someone else would...

	I tried to contact Bradley without response... I'm also trying to
get everythin in order to submit as a developer, however currently I don't
have my PGP key sign'd by another developer although it is sign'd by a
key sign'd by RCW... So I'm jsut tryin to work quietly until I can get
everythin I need in order... If Bradley feels there are legal issues I
would be willing to take it off his plate and deal with them, but havin
not been able to reach a response I'm just trying to decide a way to
proceed... I didn't even know he had a debianized source tree on a site
till your post...

	If anyone knows how to get a hold of Bradley and find out if he
would like to orphan the package and allow me to take it on I would
greatly appreciate it... 

	Respectfully,
	Jeremy T. Bouse

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