Comment 4 for bug 511988

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Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) wrote :

Buzz and I have had a look around and it may be that this turns out to be invalid. In a nutshell, most of above files are licensed under GPL (but may lack easily accessible source code, we're looking for it). The file ./eurofile/src/wuauth/sigfix.c that got all of this started is only midly problematic. It looks like Stan only made some minor additions to the file, claimed copyright and added the "no-profit" clause about ten years ago. If push comes to shove, sigfix.c is available in a number of versions on the net without the cluase.

http://viewcvs.globus.org/viewcvs.cgi/gridftp/gsi-wuftpd/source/src/sigfix.c?view=markup
http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/net/project/ftpd/wu-ftpd-2.6.1/src/sigfix.c
http://www.filewatcher.com/p/BeroFTPD-1.3.4.tar.gz.306718/BeroFTPD-1.3.4/src/sigfix.c.html

If necessary, the stuff that falls under the no-profit clause can probably be patched out easily to revert back to what the original (and main) authors wrote. Buzz will contact Stan (and other authors) to make sure that all the code is OSI-conform.