xfstests license clarification?

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Mon Apr 13 04:42:05 CDT 2009


On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:47:08PM -0500, Felix Blyakher wrote:
>
> 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.

How official is this?  Can we get a patch signed off by an sgi.com
address changing the license statements?




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