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-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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