[Bug 524386] Review Request: Intrace - Traceroute-like application for network reconnaisance

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--- Comment #9 from kashyap chamarthy <kchamart at redhat.com>  2009-09-29 10:37:20 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #8)
> The licensing on this package is at issue. None of the source files give any
> license attribution, nor do any of the documentation files.
> 
> The presence of "COPYING" is the only clue at licensing, so you should contact
> upstream and ask them to clarify what license they intend for this code to
> have.

On this, I already contacted upstream and suggested to add appropriate license
block in all source files - and a new tar ball(1.4.3) was released /with/
appropriate licenses. Will respin with an updated SPEC and SRPM 

> 
> On its own, all we can assume from COPYING's presence is "GPL+".
> 
> In addition, one file has something rather worrysome:
> 
> [sender.c]:
> 
> /* The procedure was found on the Internet - unknown license status!!! */
> static inline uint16_t sender_cksum(uint16_t * addr, size_t cnt, uint16_t *
> pseudo, size_t pseudosz)
> {
> 
> I'm pretty sure that procedure came from here:
> http://aluigi.altervista.org/papers/gsmsdisc.zip
> 
> http://aluigi.org/about.htm#howuse describes Luigi's licensing, which is
> effectively "Copyright Only".
> 
> You should confirm this with upstream and have them give proper attribution to
> Luigi Auriemma, along with a link to his website describing the licensing
> terms.  

sure, will confirm with upstream on this.

thanks a lot for comments Tom.

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