License headers in argus and argus-clients sources

[Carter Bullard]

Hey Jan,
I've corrected the errant headers. Regarding the files that have BSD headers
mentioned in the Novell bugzilla report you referenced:  I don't have a Novell
account so I can't see the bugzilla reference that you included.  Could you list
the files that need to be reviewed?  I'll make the appropriate changes today.

Carter

On Apr 6, 2012, at 1:08 PM, Jan Matějek wrote:

> 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

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