Re: [LTP] question about a license

Wanlong Gao
2013-04-25T01:19:48Z

On 04/25/2013 09:13 AM, 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.

Thank you very much James. ;)

Regards,
Wanlong Gao

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