[Buildroot] [PATCH] iperf: add license information

Richard Genoud richard.genoud at gmail.com
Tue Jan 20 11:14:12 UTC 2015


2015-01-20 12:09 GMT+01:00 Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il>:
> Hi Richard,
>
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 12:03:06PM +0100, Richard Genoud wrote:
>> 2015-01-20 11:51 GMT+01:00 Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il>:
>> > On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 11:15:06AM +0100, Richard Genoud wrote:
>> >> Signed-off-by: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud at gmail.com>
>> >> ---
>> >>  package/iperf/iperf.mk | 1 +
>> >>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>> >>
>> >> diff --git a/package/iperf/iperf.mk b/package/iperf/iperf.mk
>> >> index 2947e5241974..4ec56e0f2c23 100644
>> >> --- a/package/iperf/iperf.mk
>> >> +++ b/package/iperf/iperf.mk
>> >> @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
>> >>
>> >>  IPERF_VERSION = 2.0.5
>> >>  IPERF_SITE = http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/iperf
>> >> +IPERF_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
>> >
>> > Missing IPERF_LICENSE.
>>
>> damned !
>> you're right, I forgot that.
>>
>> hum... and now that I read the COPYING file, I understand why I didn't
>> fill the IPERF_LICENSE : it's not a "known" license :
>> Copyright (c) 1999-2007, The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
>> All Rights Reserved.
>>
>> Iperf performance test
>> Mark Gates
>> Ajay Tirumala
>> Jim Ferguson
>> Jon Dugan
>> Feng Qin
>> Kevin Gibbs
>> John Estabrook
>> National Laboratory for Applied Network Research
>> National Center for Supercomputing Applications
>> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>> http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu
>>
>> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
>> of this software (Iperf) and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
>> to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the
>> rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or
>> sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
>> furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
>>
>>
>> Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this
>> list of conditions and the following disclaimers.
>>
>> Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this
>> list of conditions and the following disclaimers in the documentation and/or
>> other materials provided with the distribution.
>>
>> Neither the names of the University of Illinois, NCSA, nor the names of its
>> contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this
>> Software without specific prior written permission.  THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED
>> "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT
>> LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
>> AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE CONTIBUTORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
>> LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF
>> CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
>> SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
>>
>>
>> So, should I call it "Iperf 2.x license" ?
>
> Looks very similar to the MIT license (http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).
> IANAL, though.

Yes, that's very close to the MIT license.
So I would go with
IPERF_LICENSE = MIT-like

I'll resend a patch.

thanks !


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