[chord] Chord license

David Featherstone dfeathers at omnitrol.com
Mon Nov 26 10:05:12 EST 2007


Thank you.

Maybe I'm different from most open-source users, but I generally want to 
know the license before I bother to download the source. I imagine that 
placing the license information in your FAQ would benefit many 
prospective users of Chord.

Regards,
... Dave

Russ Cox wrote:
>> Unfortunately, I could not find a statement regarding Chord's licensing 
>> [e.g. BSD, GPL, LGPL, etc.] on the Chord website. Would you please tell 
>> me, under what license may Chord be incorporated into a commercial product?
>>     
>
> Chord's copying terms can be found in the file COPYING
> in the Chord source tree.  It is an MIT license.
>
> http://hg.pdos.csail.mit.edu/hg/dht/file/ce871d2b4daf/COPYING
>
> Russ
>
>   




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