Re: [LTP] question about a license

Mike Frysinger
2013-04-25T02:01:43Z

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On Wednesday 24 April 2013 21:13:04 James Takahashi wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:07, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 24 April 2013 05:32:56 chrubis@suse.cz wrote:
> > > > When trying to cleanup syscalls/getitimer03.c, i meet a strange
> > > > license. It says:
> > > >
> > > > *********************************************************************
> > > >
> > > > /*
> > > >
> > > > * $Copyright: $
> > > > * Copyright (c) 1984-2000
> > > > * Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.
> > > > *$
> > > > * This software is furnished under a license and may be used
> > > > * only in accordance with the terms of that license and with the
> > > > * inclusion of the above copyright notice. This software may not
> > > > * be provided or otherwise made available to, or used by, any
> > > > * other person. No title to or ownership of the software is
> > > > * hereby transferred.
> > > > */
> > > >
> > > > *********************************************************************
> > > >
> > > > Here is my question,
> > > > 1. Can i change this license to GPL2? or
> > > > 2. Can i modify code of the case under this license?
> > > >
> > > > Could you please provide me any pointer/suggstion. :)
> > >
> > > Given that the testcases is a few lines that calls getitimer() with
> > > invalid value, I would play safe and rewrite it from scratch.
> > >
> > > Anybody has different opinion?
> >
> > there are four such files:
> > testcases/kernel/syscalls/getitimer/getitimer03.c
> > testcases/kernel/syscalls/getresgid/getresgid01.c
> > testcases/kernel/syscalls/nftw/Makefile
> > testcases/kernel/syscalls/nftw/nftw64.h
> >
> > the Makefile has at least be rewritten enough that i think we can change
> > things as the code has largely been written by Garrett Cooper now
> >
> > if we can't locate someone (Wayne Boyer?) for the tests, i suggest
> > looking at what they test (just read the comment block), then delete the
> > file and write a new test from scratch.
> >
> > the header file i think might be accidental as none of the nftw files
> > look that way. instead, they have the ibm copyright. so i'd just
> > change it to that. -mike
>
> Wayne is still at IBM (Sequent was acquired by IBM). I have CC'd him
> on this thread.
>
> If you'd elaborate on what sort of permission/assistance you need for
> this copyright issue, I'm sure Wayne would be happy to cooperate.

the code says Wayne wrote it. if Wayne can confirm that, and if he can confirm
that we want to change the copyright to the standard ibm ones (found in many
other files) and license it similarly.
-mike

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