GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 2

Description: OpenSS7 License GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 2.

OpenSS7 software previosly licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 2 can also be licensed under the OpenSS7 Commercial License.

Software that was previously licensed under GPLv2 included all OpenSS7 STREAMS modules and protocol stack components, utilities, libraries and applications (with the exception of test and validation suites) prior to the openss7-0.9.2.G release. Starting with the openss7-0.9.2.G release, all components previously released under GPLv2 have been release under AGPLv3 and GPLv3 licenses. Previously packages were released under GPLv2 simply because the GPLv3 and AGPLv3 licenses did not yet exist.

Prior to the openss7-0.9.2.G public release, OpenSS7 provided most of its public release software under the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 2 as provided in the listing below, or under separate OpenSS7 Commercial License. This model permitted users to freely use the OpenSS7 stacks, but restricted combining the OpenSS7 stacks with proprietary software unless commercially licensed. Providing a commercial license in addition to the GNU General Public License Version 2 provided the OpenSS7 project with a source of funding to continue its development work.

However, beginning with the openss7-0.9.2.G public release, OpenSS7 provides public release software previously licensed exclusively under the GPLv2 under the new AGPLv3 and GPLv3 licenses. It is our belief that the newer GPL licenses better suit the dual purposes of providing a truly Free Open Source Software release of OpenSS7 software while continuing to provide commercial ventures with the opportunity to license OpenSS7 software under our commercial license.

When a piece of OpenSS7 source code was licensed under the GPLv2, you would see a Copyright Notice such as the following listing:

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 @(#) $RCSfile$ $Name$($Revision$) $Date$

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 Copyright (c) 2001-2007  OpenSS7 Corporation <http://www.openss7.com/>
 Copyright (c) 1997-2000  Brian F. G. Bidulock <bidulock@openss7.org>

 All Rights Reserved.

 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; version 2 of the License.

 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 GNU General Public License for more
 details.

 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
 this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass
 Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

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 U.S. GOVERNMENT RESTRICTED RIGHTS.  If you are licensing this Software on
 behalf of the U.S. Government ("Government"), the following provisions apply
 to you.  If the Software is supplied by the Department of Defense ("DoD"), it
 is classified as "Commercial Computer Software" under paragraph 252.227-7014
 of the DoD Supplement to the Federal Acquisition Regulations ("DFARS") (or any
 successor regulations) and the Government is acquiring only the license rights
 granted herein (the license rights customarily provided to non-Government
 users).  If the Software is supplied to any unit or agency of the Government
 other than DoD, it is classified as "Restricted Computer Software" and the
 Government's rights in the Software are defined in paragraph 52.227-19 of the
 Federal Acquisition Regulations ("FAR") (or any successor regulations) or, in
 the cases of NASA, in paragraph 18.52.227-86 of the NASA Supplement to the FAR
 (or any successor regulations).

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 Commercial licensing and support of this software is available from OpenSS7
 Corporation at a fee.  See http://www.openss7.com/

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 Last Modified $Date$ by $Author$

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 $Log$
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#ident "@(#) $RCSfile$ $Name$($Revision$) $Date$"

static char const ident[] = "$RCSfile$ $Name$($Revision$) $Date$";

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Following is a verbatim copy of the GPL Version 2: