bug#297: [[email protected]: Re: Clarification of hdparm license?]

----- Forwarded message from Mark Lord <[email protected]> -----

Date: Wed,
From: Mark
Organization: Real-Time
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To: "Bradley M. Kuhn" <[email protected]>
CC: Seth David Schoen <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Clarification of hdparm license?

From the same web site you quoted, the hdparm lsm file says:

     Copying-policy:	BSD License

Cheers
-- 
Mark Lord
Real-Time Remedies Inc.
[email protected]



Bradley M. Kuhn wrote:
>Dear Mark,
>
>I am working with Seth David Schoen and the LNX-BBC
>(http://www.lnx-bbc.org/) team on their next release, as FSF will be
>distributing it.
>
>I am writing to ask if you could clarify your license on hdparm version
>4.6 (which the LNX-BBC folks got from
>http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/hardware/).
>
>The license says:
>
>   - by Mark S. Lord (C) 1994-2001 -- freely distributable
>
>which is likely a Free Software license, but it doesn't give explicit
>permission to modify the software.
>
>Could you cange the license to:
>
>  "may be freely copied, modified, and/or redistributed"
>
>
>This would clarify the text.
>
>
>Sorry to bother you with such a trivial wording change in your permission
>notice, but we are trying to assist the LNX-BBC team to get all the
>licensing details exactly correct.
>
>
>For now, if it is convenient for you, you can just send a message to Seth
>and me explicitly giving us permission to change the license for the
>upcoming release of LNX-BBC.
>
>We'd appreciate your help.  Thanks!
>
>--
>Bradley M. Kuhn, Executive Director
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