[Buildroot] [PATCH] iperf: add license information

Richard Genoud richard.genoud at gmail.com
Tue Jan 20 11:03:06 UTC 2015


2015-01-20 11:51 GMT+01:00 Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il>:
> Hi Richard,
>
> 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
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Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this
list of conditions and the following disclaimers in the documentation and/or
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Neither the names of the University of Illinois, NCSA, nor the names of its
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So, should I call it "Iperf 2.x license" ?

Thanks !



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