| paul@181 | 1 | This package, the EXT2 filesystem utilities, are made available under |
| paul@181 | 2 | the GNU Public License version 2, with the exception of the lib/ext2fs |
| paul@181 | 3 | and lib/e2p libraries, which are made available under the GNU Library |
| paul@181 | 4 | General Public License Version 2, the lib/uuid library which is made |
| paul@181 | 5 | available under a BSD-style license and the lib/et and lib/ss |
| paul@181 | 6 | libraries which are made available under an MIT-style license. Please |
| paul@181 | 7 | see lib/uuid/COPYING for more details for the license for the files |
| paul@181 | 8 | comprising the libuuid library, and the source file headers of the |
| paul@181 | 9 | libet and libss libraries for more information. |
| paul@181 | 10 | |
| paul@181 | 11 | The most recent officially distributed version can be found at |
| paul@181 | 12 | http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net. If you need to make a distribution, |
| paul@181 | 13 | that's the one you should use. If there is some reason why you'd like |
| paul@181 | 14 | a more recent version that is still in ALPHA testing (i.e., either |
| paul@181 | 15 | using the "WIP" test distributions or one from the hg or git |
| paul@181 | 16 | repository from the development branch, please contact me |
| paul@181 | 17 | (tytso@mit.edu) before you ship. The release schedules for this |
| paul@181 | 18 | package are flexible, if you give me enough lead time. |
| paul@181 | 19 | |
| paul@181 | 20 | |
| paul@181 | 21 | Theodore Ts'o |
| paul@181 | 22 | 23-June-2007 |
| paul@181 | 23 | |
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| paul@181 | 312 | |
| paul@181 | 313 | To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest |
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| paul@181 | 316 | the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found. |
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| paul@181 | 321 | This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify |
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| paul@181 | 323 | the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or |
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| paul@181 | 325 | |
| paul@181 | 326 | This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, |
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| paul@181 | 330 | |
| paul@181 | 331 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
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| paul@181 | 334 | |
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| paul@181 | 336 | Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail. |
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| paul@181 | 338 | If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this |
| paul@181 | 339 | when it starts in an interactive mode: |
| paul@181 | 340 | |
| paul@181 | 341 | Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author |
| paul@181 | 342 | Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'. |
| paul@181 | 343 | This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it |
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| paul@181 | 345 | |
| paul@181 | 346 | The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate |
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| paul@181 | 350 | |
| paul@181 | 351 | You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your |
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| paul@181 | 354 | |
| paul@181 | 355 | Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program |
| paul@181 | 356 | `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker. |
| paul@181 | 357 | |
| paul@181 | 358 | <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989 |
| paul@181 | 359 | Ty Coon, President of Vice |
| paul@181 | 360 | |
| paul@181 | 361 | This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into |
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| paul@181 | 367 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| paul@181 | 369 | GNU LIBRARY GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE |
| paul@181 | 370 | Version 2, June 1991 |
| paul@181 | 371 | |
| paul@181 | 372 | Copyright (C) 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
| paul@181 | 373 | 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA |
| paul@181 | 374 | Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies |
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| paul@181 | 844 | library `Frob' (a library for tweaking knobs) written by James Random Hacker. |
| paul@181 | 845 | |
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| paul@181 | 848 | |
| paul@181 | 849 | That's all there is to it! |
