SmoothWall facts
Loic Dachary
loic at gnu.org
Thu Nov 8 16:29:16 UTC 2001
Hi,
Just a few basic facts about SmoothWall (www.smoothwall.org). IMHO
those people should be more careful about licensing issues. It requires no
expertise, just a brain and a little time to deal with them. I hope this
list will help them fix the issues.
Regarding ftp://us0.download.smoothwall.org/pub/releases/0.9.9/smoothwall-0.9.9-cvsstuff.tar.gz
- We are talking of a total of 4000 lines of code
counts 13000 lines, 9000 of which are files containing translated
strings.
- The tar does not contain any documentation
One can probably build the ISO image extrapolating from
http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=872&group_id=10366
- The licence notice is wrong since it refers to a COPYING file
that is not present in the tarball + does not mention any other
way to get the license
- Lawrence Manning is the sole copyright holder of all files.
Regarding the ISO image
- We are talking of 6000 lines of code, mostly CGI scripts +
rc files.
- The SmoothWall Team is the sole copyright holder of all
files. Unless this team has a legal existence (company, non
profit), it cannot be the copyright holder.
- Most of them contain an invalid copyright notice. Typically:
#
# SmoothWall CGIs
#
# This code is distributed under the terms of the GPL
#
# (c) The SmoothWall Team
- Anyone distributing the ISO image will also distribute the
/home/httpd/html/mindtermfull.jar and be in direct violation
with the corresponding license
http://www.appgate.org/products/mindterm/mindterm_licensing.html
- It contains many .gif files
I'm out of fuel at this point ;-)
Cheers,
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