Re: [LTP] question about a license

chrubis
2013-04-24T09:32:02Z

Hi!
> 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?

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Cyril Hrubis
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