From: James T. <tak...@us...> - 2013-04-25 01:13:14
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On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:07, Mike Frysinger <va...@ge...> wrote: > On Wednesday 24 April 2013 05:32:56 ch...@su... 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. |