Re: [LTP] [TESTING] XFS improvements in 2.6.26

[Timothy S. <te...@sg...>]

Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Subrata Modak wrote:
>> On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 09:45 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> 
> 
>>> Historically tarballs haven't been made, nor has xfstests been packaged,
>>> but it's in cvs:  http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/xfs-cmds/xfstests/
>> Hmmm. I went through the code in your CVS. I noticed that although the
>> SGI copyright is mentioned, but most of the code does not include the
>> GPL license definition. Like, you have only this now:
>>
>> #-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> # Copyright (c) 2000-2001 Silicon Graphics, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
>> #-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Now, if include this code inside LTP, i will have things like this:
>>
>> #-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> # Copyright (c) 2000-2001 Silicon Graphics, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
>> #-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> /* This program is free software;  you can redistribute it and/or modify
>> */
>> /* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by       */
>> /* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or          */
>> /* (at your option) any later version.                                        */
>> /*                                                                            */
>> /* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,            */
>> /* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY;  without even the implied warranty of            */
>> /* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See                  */
>> /* the GNU General Public License for more details.                           */
>> /*                                                                            */
>> /* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License          */
>> /* along with this program;  if not, write to the Free Software               */
>> /* Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA    */
>>
>> I was not able to find authors for all those code, expect few of the following gentlemen:
>> ke...@sg...,
>> dx...@sg...,
>> lo...@sg...,
>>

kenmcd (Ken McDonell - http://www.kenj.com.au/) is no longer at SGI.
dxm (Daniel Moore) is no longer at SGI (came, went, came-back, went).
lord (Steve Lord) is no longer at SGI (came, went, came-back, went :-).
However, their xfstest contributions were all done while they worked for SGI.

>> Now, if somebody amongst them, or anybody having written that code says that he/she
>> does not have any problem this code being contributed to LTP by simply Signing it
>> off like Signed-Off-By:xy...@12..., will be helpful. If you do not have any
>> objection in me including that code in LTP (i will actually have that GPL license
>> definition in every code), then you can just reply to this mail with a Sign-off.
>> That will help.
> 

Most of the tests have been written by people while working at SGI.
I'll cc in Mark Goodwin to say what we should do here.

> Well, any code I have contributed to the xfs test suite can certainly be
> included in the LTP, and for that:
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sa...@sa...>
> or, used to be:
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sa...@sg...>
> 
> But SGI (Mark?) can you guys go through and make sure the test suite is
> all explicitly, obviously GPL, if that's the intent?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Eric

--Tim