pyfec: licensing tweak

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Zooko O'Whielacronx 2007-01-31 13:54:20 -07:00
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In addition to the terms of the GNU General Public License, the pyfec package
also comes with a special added permission that if you are obligated to release
a derived work under this licence as per section 2.b, you may delay the
fulfillment of this obligation for up to 12 months.
also comes with a special added permission that you may delay for up to 12
months the fulfillment of your obligation under GPL section 2.b to release any
derived work under this licence.

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This package implements an "erasure code", or "forward error correction code".
It is offered under the GNU General Public License v2 or (at your option) any
later version, with the added permission that, in the case that you are
obligated to release a derived work under this licence (as per section 2.b of
the GPL), you may delay the fulfillment of this obligation for up to 12 months.
later version. This package also comes with the added permission that, in the
case that you are obligated to release a derived work under this licence (as
per section 2.b of the GPL), you may delay the fulfillment of this obligation
for up to 12 months.
The most widely known example of an erasure code is the RAID-5 algorithm which
makes it so that in the event of the loss of any one hard drive, the stored
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whose loss it can tolerate.
This package is largely based on the old "fec" library by Luigi Rizzo et al.,
which is a simple, mature, and optimized implementation of erasure coding. The
pyfec package makes several changes from the original "fec" package, including
which is a mature and optimized implementation of erasure coding. The pyfec
package makes several changes from the original "fec" package, including
addition of the Python API, refactoring of the C API to be faster (for the way
that I use it, at least), and a few clean-ups and micro-optimizations of the
core code itself.
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Enjoy!
Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
2007-01-27
San Francisco
2007-01-30
Boulder, Colorado

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* 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 2
* of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
* of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program also
* comes with the added permission that, in the case that you are obligated to
* release a derived work under this licence (as per section 2.b of the GPL),
* you may delay the fulfillment of this obligation for up to 12 months.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

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*
* This file is part of pyfec.
*
* 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 2
* of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
* 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 2 of the License, or (at your option)
* any later version. This program also comes with the added permission that,
* in the case that you are obligated to release a derived work under this
* licence (as per section 2.b of the GPL), you may delay the fulfillment of
* this obligation for up to 12 months.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

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*
* This file is part of pyfec.
*
* 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 2
* of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
* 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 2 of the License, or (at your option)
* any later version. This program also comes with the added permission that,
* in the case that you are obligated to release a derived work under this
* licence (as per section 2.b of the GPL), you may delay the fulfillment of
* this obligation for up to 12 months.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

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#
# This file is part of pyfec.
#
# 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 2
# of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
#
# 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 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
# version. This program also comes with the added permission that, in the case
# that you are obligated to release a derived work under this licence (as per
# section 2.b of the GPL), you may delay the fulfillment of this obligation for
# up to 12 months.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the

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#
# This file is part of pyfec.
#
# 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 2
# of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
# 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 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
# version. This program also comes with the added permission that, in the case
# that you are obligated to release a derived work under this licence (as per
# section 2.b of the GPL), you may delay the fulfillment of this obligation for
# up to 12 months.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of