  Copying conditions
  Markus Gutschke, gutschk@math.uni-muenster.de
  1 July 1997

  This explains the copyright conditions of the Etherboot package


  The code, that I wrote for this package, basically consists of a set
  of patches against existing code written by other authors. As part of
  the existing code is covered by a BSD-style license whereas the other
  part is covered by the GNU General Public License, mixing these
  packages would cause conflicts between the two licenses. Fortunately,
  you can clearly separate the two packages (all of the original code
  for the BOOT-prom is covered by the BSD-style license, all of the
  original code for creating the required Linux kernel images is covered
  by GPL).



  As I did not intend to complicate things even more, I decided to
  release my patches (note! this only applies my patches! it does not
  mean, that either the copyright conditions for the original packages
  or for the patched files are changed!) into the PUBLIC DOMAIN. This
  means, I do not accept any responsibility for what my code does; the
  patches are provided `as is' without warranty of any kind, either
  expressed of implied, including, but not limited to, the implied
  warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.
  The entire risk as to the quality and performance of the program is
  with you. Should the program prove defective, you assume the cost of
  all necessary servicing, repair or correction. On the other hand, I do
  not claim any rights to this software other than the right that I am
  acknowledged as the author of the patches.



  For information on the copyright conditions of the individual
  packages/files please refer to the separate subdirectories. The
  directory `src*' contains part of a FreeBSD source tree (you can
  obtain the full source tree from a large selection of different FTP
  servers), the directory `netboot-0.4' contains part of a package that
  uses a different approach to disk-less loading of Linux kernels (you
  can obtain the full package from sunsite in pub/linux/system/Linux-
  boot/netboot-0.4.tar.gz). The directory `bin' contains pre-compiled
  binaries; these binaries are derived from the code in the `src*'
  directory and therefore share its copying conditions. The directory
  'patches' contains two patches `netboot*' against the FreeBSD code
  (these two files are the only code written by me; I hereby place them
  in the PUBLIC DOMAIN) and one patch that is derived from the file
  `netboot-linux/lx-1.3.15.patch` and therefore shares the GNU General
  Public License with that file. Most of these patches are probably
  outdated by now.

  If you do not clearly understand the terms of this license or if you
  want to report bugs, please contact me. (You could also send me a
  postcard from your hometown, if you really like my code.) At the time
  of writing my address is:










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    Markus Gutschke
    Schlage 5a
    D-48268 Greven-Gimbte
    Germany

    Internet: gutschk@math.uni-muenster.de
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  Current releases of "etherboot" are co-authored by Ken Yap
  <ken_yap@users.sourceforge.net> and me; so please send e-mail to both
  of our addresses.




















































