xfstests license clarification?

[Felix Blyakher]

On Mar 28, 2009, at 9:54 AM, Eric Sandeen wrote:

> Since most of the scripts themselves in xfstests make no mention of
> redistribution, and only say "copyright sgi, all rights reserved" etc:
>
> #-----------------------------------------------------------------------
> #  Copyright (c) 2006 Silicon Graphics, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
> #-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> do we need to do anything in terms of making this look more like Free
> Software (assuming that's the intent?)

Yes, it was intent. And it's OK to add the GPL license blob
there. Can't speak for non sgi files.

Felix

> It might be a rats-nest, there are a several testcases in src/ gleaned
> from mailing lists & bugs with little or no attribution; OTOH maybe  
> this
> stuff is trivial enough that it doesn't warrant copyright, I dunno.
>
> Is it worth trying to clarify the license on the collection, or is  
> this
> just a can of worms?
>
> -Eric
>
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