Eliminate spurious protocol error messages.

[~andy/fetchmail] / COPYING

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 The code in the fetchmail distribution is Copyright 1997 by Eric S. Raymond.
-Portions are also copyrighted by Carl Harris, 1993 and 1995.  Copyright
-retained for the purpose of protecting free redistribution of source.
+Portions were also copyrighted by Carl E. Harris, 1993 and 1995.  Copyright
+retained for the purpose of protecting open-source redistribution.
 
 The MD5 support is copyright by RSA Data Security, Inc.  See the header
 comment of the md5.c module for license terms.
 
-                       NO-VIRUS CLAUSE
-
-The intent of this license is to protect free redistribution and reuse of the
-source of the licensed distribution, not to prejudice the authorship
-rights of programmers of other code to control their original inventions.
-
-No portion of this license is to be interpreted as forbidding the reuse of
-this code or its constituent parts, algorithms, or inventions in commercial
-products.
-
-Nor shall such inclusion be construed to require the GPLing or disclosure of
-any portions of said commercial products other than those falling under
-the copyright of the licensed distribution.
+The support for SMB authentication is copyright by Andrew Tridgell, who 
+has granted a specific exemption for his GPL-licensed code to be linked
+with non-GPL-compliant code in fetchmail.
 
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                    GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE