Hi all,
The following licensing concerns were raised by our legal department...
pcp-3.6.10/qa/src/xmktime.c carries the following proprietary license:
/*
* Copyright 1995, Silicon Graphics, Inc.
* ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
*
* UNPUBLISHED -- Rights reserved under the copyright laws of the United
* States. Use of a copyright notice is precautionary only and does not
* imply publication or disclosure.
*
* U.S. GOVERNMENT RESTRICTED RIGHTS LEGEND:
* Use, duplication or disclosure by the Government is subject to restrictions
* as set forth in FAR 52.227.19(c)(2) or subparagraph (c)(1)(ii) of the Rights
* in Technical Data and Computer Software clause at DFARS 252.227-7013 and/or
* in similar or successor clauses in the FAR, or the DOD or NASA FAR
* Supplement. Contractor/manufacturer is Silicon Graphics, Inc.,
* 2011 N. Shoreline Blvd. Mountain View, CA 94039-7311.
*
* THE CONTENT OF THIS WORK CONTAINS CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY
* INFORMATION OF SILICON GRAPHICS, INC. ANY DUPLICATION, MODIFICATION,
* DISTRIBUTION, OR DISCLOSURE IN ANY FORM, IN WHOLE, OR IN PART, IS STRICTLY
* PROHIBITED WITHOUT THE PRIOR EXPRESS WRITTEN PERMISSION OF SILICON
* GRAPHICS, INC.
*/
Also, pthread_barrier.h carries an unusual license (or rather, lack of
license). It states:
* Brent Priddy's code from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3640853
* included here with permission
* On Mon, 2012-04-30 at 11:27 -0500, Brent Priddy wrote:
* You are free to use stack overflow answers from me without license.
That statement is confusing - the scope of 'use' here is not really dealt with
in depth - does that include copy, modify and redistribute? The author should
really have spelled this out more comprehensively. Further, the statement
"without license" is also confusing. The very grant of the right to "use" is in
itself a "license" - or is the author purporting to release his works into the
public domain? As you can see, the statement raises more issues than it solves
and really should be rephrased by the author. If his/her intent was to license
his/her answers liberally, he/she should have chosen an existing liberal
license such as MIT.
Cheers, David
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