On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:07, Mike Frysinger <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday 24 April 2013 05:32:56 [email protected] 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_apr _______________________________________________ Ltp-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltp-list
