From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id n2T7ctqL117698 for ; Sun, 29 Mar 2009 02:39:21 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 8DCF51D1517 for ; Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:38:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [18.85.46.34]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id 3dBRHuwfjlfEIlIV for ; Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:38:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 03:38:09 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: xfstests license clarification? Message-ID: <20090329073809.GA10444@infradead.org> References: <49CE3A1A.9020103@sandeen.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49CE3A1A.9020103@sandeen.net> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Eric Sandeen Cc: xfs-oss On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 09:54:18AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > Since most of the scripts themselves in xfstests make no mention of > redistribution, and only say "copyright sgi, all rights reserved" etc: > > #----------------------------------------------------------------------- > # Copyright (c) 2006 Silicon Graphics, Inc. All Rights Reserved. > #----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > do we need to do anything in terms of making this look more like Free > Software (assuming that's the intent?) > > It might be a rats-nest, there are a several testcases in src/ gleaned > from mailing lists & bugs with little or no attribution; OTOH maybe this > stuff is trivial enough that it doesn't warrant copyright, I dunno. > > Is it worth trying to clarify the license on the collection, or is this > just a can of worms? While only a couple of files have the same, just with me as a copyright holder I'm willing to license it under whatever free license suits best. I suspect BSD might be best for test code like this. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs