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| The Open Group Test Suite License |
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| Preamble |
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| The intent of this document is to state the conditions under which |
| a Package may be copied, such that the Copyright Holder maintains |
| some semblance of artistic control over the development of the |
| package, while giving the users of the package the right to use and |
| distribute the Package in a more-or-less customary fashion, plus |
| the right to make reasonable modifications. |
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| Testing is essential for proper development and maintenance of |
| standards-based products. |
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| For buyers: adequate conformance testing leads to reduced |
| integration costs and protection of investments in applications, |
| software and people. |
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| For software developers: conformance testing of platforms and |
| middleware greatly reduces the cost of developing and maintaining |
| multi-platform application software. |
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| For suppliers: In-depth testing increases customer satisfaction and |
| keeps development and support costs in check. API conformance is |
| highly measurable and suppliers who claim it must be able to |
| substantiate that claim. |
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| As such, since these are benchmark measures of conformance, we feel |
| the integrity of test tools is of importance. In order to preserve |
| the integrity of the existing conformance modes of this test |
| package and to permit recipients of modified versions of this |
| package to run the original test modes, this license requires that |
| the original test modes be preserved. |
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| If you find a bug in one of the standards mode test cases, please |
| let us know so we can feed this back into the original, and also |
| raise any specification issues with the appropriate bodies (for |
| example the POSIX committees). |
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| Definitions: |
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| "Package" refers to the collection of files distributed by the |
| Copyright Holder, and derivatives of that collection of files |
| created through textual modification. |
| "Standard Version" refers to such a Package if it has not been |
| modified, or has been modified in accordance with the wishes |
| of the Copyright Holder. |
| "Copyright Holder" is whoever is named in the copyright or |
| copyrights for the package. "You" is you, if you`re thinking |
| about copying or distributing this Package. |
| "Reasonable copying fee" is whatever you can justify on the |
| basis of media cost, duplication charges, time of people |
| involved, and so on. (You will not be required to justify it |
| to the Copyright Holder, but only to the computing community |
| at large as a market that must bear the fee.) |
| "Freely Available" means that no fee is charged for the item |
| itself, though there may be fees involved in handling the |
| item. It also means that recipients of the item may |
| redistribute it under the same conditions they received it. |
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| 1. You may make and give away verbatim copies of the source form of |
| the Standard Version of this Package without restriction, provided |
| that you duplicate all of the original copyright notices and |
| associated disclaimers. |
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| 2. You may apply bug fixes, portability fixes and other |
| modifications derived from the Public Domain or from the Copyright |
| Holder. A Package modified in such a way shall still be considered |
| the Standard Version. |
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| 3. You may otherwise modify your copy of this Package in any way, |
| provided that you insert a prominent notice in each changed file |
| stating how and when you changed that file, and provided that you |
| do at least the following: |
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| rename any non-standard executables and testcases so the |
| names do not conflict with standard executables and |
| testcases, which must also be provided, and provide a |
| separate manual page for each non-standard executable and |
| testcase that clearly documents how it differs from the |
| Standard Version. |
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| 4. You may distribute the programs of this Package in object code |
| or executable form, provided that you do at least the following: |
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| accompany any non-standard executables and testcases with |
| their corresponding Standard Version executables and |
| testcases, giving the non-standard executables and |
| testcases non-standard names, and clearly documenting the |
| differences in manual pages (or equivalent), together with |
| instructions on where to get the Standard Version. |
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| 5. You may charge a reasonable copying fee for any distribution of |
| this Package. You may charge any fee you choose for support of this |
| Package. You may not charge a fee for this Package itself. However, |
| you may distribute this Package in aggregate with other (possibly |
| commercial) programs as part of a larger (possibly commercial) |
| software distribution provided that you do not advertise this |
| Package as a product of your own. |
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| 6. The scripts and library files supplied as input to or produced |
| as output from the programs of this Package do not automatically |
| fall under the copyright of this Package, but belong to whomever |
| generated them, and may be sold commercially, and may be aggregated |
| with this Package. |
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| 7.Subroutines supplied by you and linked into this Package shall |
| not be considered part of this Package. |
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| 8. The name of the Copyright Holder may not be used to endorse or |
| promote products derived from this software without specific prior |
| written permission. |
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| 9. THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR |
| IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED |
| WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. |
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