Copyright for acorn-fdisk source package in Precise

This package was debianized by Philip Blundell  on
Sat, 10 Nov 2001 16:13:13 +0000.

It was downloaded from ftp.arm.linux.org.uk:/pub/armlinux/source/other/

Upstream Author: Russell King - ARM Linux 

Copyright:

The gros of this code is
Copyright (C) 1997,1998 Russell King

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED `AS IS'.  THE AUTHOR MAKES NO WARRANTY, EXPRESS
OR IMPLIED OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE MERCHANTABILITY
AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OF
THIS SOFTWARE BE LIABLE FOR DAMAGES INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL,
INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY
TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA
BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES
OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS), EVEN
IF THE AUTHOR HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

According to the author’s message pasted below, it is covered by
the “GPL” since it contains “the original” fdisk.c which has been
tracked down to be the one from util-linux.


The fdisk.c source file in util-linux and Slackware 3.3 bears the
following copyright notice:

Copyright (C) 1992  A. V. Le Blanc (LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk)

This program is free software.  You can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation: either version 1 or
(at your option) any later version.


While the GPL version 1 does not come with the Debian system, a
later version can be found in ‘/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2’
on Debian systems.


 Subject: Re: fdisk
 From: Russell King - ARM Linux 
 Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 15:31:44 +0000
 To: pb@nexus.co.uk

 On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 03:20:42PM +0000, pb@nexus.co.uk wrote:
 > >ftp.arm.linux.org.uk:/pub/armlinux/source/other/
 > 
 > Thanks.
 > 
 > This program doesn't seem to contain any explicit licence statement.
 > What are the terms?

 GPL, since it contains the original fdisk.c source, which was used as a basis
 for creating this.