bug#295: Discover-data license notes

 I have found two useful references on the web:  

       Linkname: The Discover Hardware Detection System
        URL: http://hackers.progeny.com/discover/doc/guide.html
The Discover Hardware Detection System

G. Branden Robinson

John R. Daily

Eric Gillespie

   $Progeny: guide.xml,v 1.102.2.12 2002/10/16 19:17:54 branden Exp $

   Copyright C 2002 Progeny Linux Systems, Inc.

   Copyright C 2002 Hewlett-Packard Company

   Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
   a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
   "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
   without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
   distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
   permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
   the following conditions:

   The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
   included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

   THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
   EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
   MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
   IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER(S) BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM,
   DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR
   OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR
   THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

   Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.

Since our Makefile references 2.0.1 as version number I would presume it
means the one above.  However I also found:

http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/gentoo/sys-apps/discover-data/discover-data-1.2002.05.23.ebuild


# (C) 2002 The TelemetryBox Corporation. http://telemetrybox.biz
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# Christoph Lameter, <[email protected]>, July 15, 2002
# $Header:
# /home/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/discover-data/discover-data-1.2002
.05.23.ebuild,v 1.5 2002/12/09 04:37:24 manson Exp $

DESCRIPTION="data for discover. list of pci ids. pnp ids etc."
SRC_URI="ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/discover-data/discover-data_1.
2002.05.23-1.tar.gz"
HOMEPAGE="http://hackers.progeny.com/discover/"
LICENSE="GPL-2"
SLOT="1"
KEYWORDS="x86 ppc sparc "

DEPEND="sys-apps/tar sys-apps/gzip"
RDEPEND="sys-apps/bash"
 
(code follows this point on the page)

. . . hmm.

Now Progeny *claims* theirs is a complete rewrite:
http://archive.progeny.com/progeny/discover/


Discover 2.0 is a cross-platform hardware detection system, using
system-dependent modules (selected at build time) for detecting the
hardware on the system, and provides system-independent interfaces for
querying XML data sources about this hardware. Data files are also
available.

Discover 2.0 is a complete redesign and rewrite of Discover 1.0,
supporting
the association of arbitrary data with specific hardware devices. As an
improvement to Discover 1.0, which was limited to reporting Linux kernel
modules and XFree86 server module names, Discover 2.0 allows the
specification of any data (that can be expressed in XML format) to any
software interface.

. . . but if it is not in fact a totally new codebase, then the GPL 
would be carried into it.

Hope this is enough, or at least useful.

-* Heather Stern * Starshine Technical Services * [email protected] *-