Re: [LTP] question about a license

James Takahashi
2013-04-25T01:13:14Z

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.