Re: [LTP] the license of test cases of rt_sig* system calls

[Subrata M. <su...@li...>]

Hi Yamato,

On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 22:22 +0900, Masatake YAMATO wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A LTP developer has interested in porting the test cases of rt_sig*
> system calls in Crackerjack to LTP. However, no license notice is
> in sourec files. The author of test cases, could you put the
> license notice on the sourec files?
> 
> The test cases may be written by China team. 
> 
> 
> The test cases written by Korean tem can be used under GPL version 2.
> (http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=002801c91a1c%24211af0f0%246350d2d0%24%40com&forum_name=crackerjack-devel)
> 
> This is really good.
> 
> However, in the mail:
> 
> > We will insert the copyright line into the existing testcase source code.
> 
> The lines have not been inserted yet(See cs_access.c, a test case of
> access(2)).  I know the reason; Korean developers may not have an
> account for writing access to Crackerjack CVS repository. I hope the
> maintainer of this project issue the account to the developers.
> 
> 
> Anyway, LTP developer can use them because in the mail archive, the
> license was declared.
> Subrata, about test cases writing by Korean team, is my understanding
> correct?
> 

If there is any code open for the community and does not contain the GPL
declaration, then there is a possibility by which the code can be made
part of other project(s) like LTP. Instead of including the GPL (or
later) definition in each and every source code of those test code, the
following approach will be far more efficient:

The Author of those test cases, or, whoever having Copyright to those
code, can reply to this mail (To: ltp...@li...) with
the following statement that:

1) The Authors of the Source Code (who has contributed or has
Copyright/copyright) available for download, at the following location:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/crackerjack
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=177476

has no problem in allowing this code to be re-used under GPL (or later
versions) by any party. And hence a DCO Sign-off from them like:

2) Signed-Off-By: XYZ <xy...@12...>,

in similar lines we send patches to the mailing lists.

A reply to this mail from any of them will be sufficient to use those
code.

Regards--
Subrata

> The test cases written by Japan team. Good. As far as I read the
> soruce files, the license notices are in all source files. LTP
> developer can use them.
> 
> 
> Masatake YAMATO