This package, the EXT2 filesystem utilities, are made available under
-the GNU Public License, with the exception of the lib/uuid directory
-which is made available under a BSD-style license. Please see
-lib/uuid/COPYING for more details for the license for the files
-comprising the libuuid library.
-
-However, I request that if the version string in the file version.h
-contains the string "pre-", or "WIP" that this version of e2fsprogs be
-distributed in source form only. Please feel free to give a copy of
-the e2fsck binary to help a friend recover his or her filesystem, as
-the need arises. However, "pre" or "WIP" indicates that this release
-is under development, and available for ALPHA testing. So for your
-protection as much as mine, I'd prefer that it not appear in a some
-distribution --- especially not a CD-ROM distribution!
+the GNU Public License version 2, with the exception of the lib/ext2fs
+and lib/e2p libraries, which are made available under the GNU Library
+General Public License Version 2, the lib/uuid library which is made
+available under a BSD-style license and the lib/et and lib/ss
+libraries which are made available under an MIT-style license. Please
+see lib/uuid/COPYING for more details for the license for the files
+comprising the libuuid library, and the source file headers of the
+libet and libss libraries for more information.
The most recent officially distributed version can be found at
http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net. If you need to make a distribution,
that's the one you should use. If there is some reason why you'd like
-a more recent version that is still in ALPHA testing for your
-distribution, please contact me (tytso@mit.edu), and we will very
-likely be able to work out something that will work for all concerned.
-The release schedules for this package are flexible, if you give me
-enough lead time.
+a more recent version that is still in ALPHA testing (i.e., either
+using the "WIP" test distributions or one from the hg or git
+repository from the development branch, please contact me
+(tytso@mit.edu) before you ship. The release schedules for this
+package are flexible, if you give me enough lead time.
Theodore Ts'o
- 15-Mar-2003
+ 23-June-2007
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