Pioneer: Acknowledgments and Copyright Information

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Pioneer uses publicly available open source software as part of its tool suite. Any software that is distributed as part of the suite is done so in binary form. Any modified software is part of the central server code, and retains all original copyright information. Currently we are not yet distributing source code for this project.

We thank the developers, and sponsors of the following projects for making them freely available:

Iperf
Iperf was developed at NLANR, and you may find their description of the project, as well as downloads, and documentation available here.

Copyright (c) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
All Rights Reserved.

Iperf performance testers
Mark Gates
Ajay Tirumala
Jim Ferguson
Jon Dugan
Feng Qin
National Laboratory for Applied Network Research
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software (Iperf) and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

- Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers.

- Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

- Neither the names of the University of Illinois, NCSA, nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this Software without specific prior written permission.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS," WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE CONTIBUTORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES, OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT, OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF, OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE, OR THE USE OF, OR OTHER DEALINGS WITH THE SOFTWARE.

traceroute
This tool was originally written by Van Jacobson. It is now available with all standard installations of
Unix based systems.

pchar
pchar was developed by Bruce A. Mah, based on the algorithms presented as a part of pathchar, which was written by Van Jacobson. Details on pchar availability and use are available here. Information on pathchar can be found here.

ping
This tool was originally written as part of the 4.3 BSD OS. It is currently available with all standard installations of Unix based systems.