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.