-This package, the EXT2 filesystem utilities, are protected by the GNU
-Public License, with the following exception ---
-
- If the version string in the file version.h contains the
- string "pre-", or "WIP" then this package must be distributed
- in source form only. You can give a copy of the binary for
- e2fsck 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 rather not have it
- appear in a some distribution --- especially not a CD-ROM
- distribution!
+This package, the EXT2 filesystem utilities, are made available under
+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 can see if we
-can't come to an arrangement. 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
- 26-Jul-2000
+ 23-June-2007
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