License headers in argus and argus-clients sources

[Jan Matějek]

hello,

according to information on the Argus homepage, the software is distributed 
under GPLv3. However, during legal review, we found several source files with 
license headers that contradict this.

For example, from argus-3.0.4/argus/ArgusLcp.c :

  * THE ACCOMPANYING PROGRAM IS PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE OF QoSIENT, LLC,
  * AND CANNOT BE USED, DISTRIBUTED, COPIED OR MODIFIED WITHOUT
  * EXPRESS PERMISSION OF QoSIENT, LLC.

and on argus-clients side, argus-clients-3.0.4.1/include/argus/cons_out.h :

  * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and
  * its documentation is restricted to personal use only.  Use, sale
  * or retransmission of this software for commercial purposes,
  * including but not limited to use as a commerical product or
  * in support of a commercial endeavor requires licensing from Carter
  * Bullard.

There are other problematic files with similar license headers:
argus-3.0.4/bin/argusbug
argus-clients-3.0.4.1/clients/raconvert.h

This unfortunately means that we cannot include Argus in the SUSE distribution. [1]

I presume that those license headers are an oversight, because both the website 
and COPYING files clearly state that the software is under GPLv3. Could you 
please have a look at this and remove the license headers, or clarify the 
licensing conditions?

thanks
Jan

p.s.: Also, as noted in [1], several files contain a GPL-incompatible BSD 
4-clause license header.

[1] https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=739260

-- 
Jan Matejek
package maintainer, SUSE Linux