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| 2 | The Open Group Test Suite License |
| 3 | |
| 4 | Preamble |
| 5 | |
| 6 | The intent of this document is to state the conditions under which |
| 7 | a Package may be copied, such that the Copyright Holder maintains |
| 8 | some semblance of artistic control over the development of the |
| 9 | package, while giving the users of the package the right to use and |
| 10 | distribute the Package in a more-or-less customary fashion, plus |
| 11 | the right to make reasonable modifications. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | Testing is essential for proper development and maintenance of |
| 14 | standards-based products. |
| 15 | |
| 16 | For buyers: adequate conformance testing leads to reduced |
| 17 | integration costs and protection of investments in applications, |
| 18 | software and people. |
| 19 | |
| 20 | For software developers: conformance testing of platforms and |
| 21 | middleware greatly reduces the cost of developing and maintaining |
| 22 | multi-platform application software. |
| 23 | |
| 24 | For suppliers: In-depth testing increases customer satisfaction and |
| 25 | keeps development and support costs in check. API conformance is |
| 26 | highly measurable and suppliers who claim it must be able to |
| 27 | substantiate that claim. |
| 28 | |
| 29 | As such, since these are benchmark measures of conformance, we feel |
| 30 | the integrity of test tools is of importance. In order to preserve |
| 31 | the integrity of the existing conformance modes of this test |
| 32 | package and to permit recipients of modified versions of this |
| 33 | package to run the original test modes, this license requires that |
| 34 | the original test modes be preserved. |
| 35 | |
| 36 | If you find a bug in one of the standards mode test cases, please |
| 37 | let us know so we can feed this back into the original, and also |
| 38 | raise any specification issues with the appropriate bodies (for |
| 39 | example the POSIX committees). |
| 40 | |
| 41 | Definitions: |
| 42 | |
| 43 | "Package" refers to the collection of files distributed by the |
| 44 | Copyright Holder, and derivatives of that collection of files |
| 45 | created through textual modification. |
| 46 | "Standard Version" refers to such a Package if it has not been |
| 47 | modified, or has been modified in accordance with the wishes |
| 48 | of the Copyright Holder. |
| 49 | "Copyright Holder" is whoever is named in the copyright or |
| 50 | copyrights for the package. "You" is you, if you`re thinking |
| 51 | about copying or distributing this Package. |
| 52 | "Reasonable copying fee" is whatever you can justify on the |
| 53 | basis of media cost, duplication charges, time of people |
| 54 | involved, and so on. (You will not be required to justify it |
| 55 | to the Copyright Holder, but only to the computing community |
| 56 | at large as a market that must bear the fee.) |
| 57 | "Freely Available" means that no fee is charged for the item |
| 58 | itself, though there may be fees involved in handling the |
| 59 | item. It also means that recipients of the item may |
| 60 | redistribute it under the same conditions they received it. |
| 61 | |
| 62 | 1. You may make and give away verbatim copies of the source form of |
| 63 | the Standard Version of this Package without restriction, provided |
| 64 | that you duplicate all of the original copyright notices and |
| 65 | associated disclaimers. |
| 66 | |
| 67 | 2. You may apply bug fixes, portability fixes and other |
| 68 | modifications derived from the Public Domain or from the Copyright |
| 69 | Holder. A Package modified in such a way shall still be considered |
| 70 | the Standard Version. |
| 71 | |
| 72 | 3. You may otherwise modify your copy of this Package in any way, |
| 73 | provided that you insert a prominent notice in each changed file |
| 74 | stating how and when you changed that file, and provided that you |
| 75 | do at least the following: |
| 76 | |
| 77 | rename any non-standard executables and testcases so the |
| 78 | names do not conflict with standard executables and |
| 79 | testcases, which must also be provided, and provide a |
| 80 | separate manual page for each non-standard executable and |
| 81 | testcase that clearly documents how it differs from the |
| 82 | Standard Version. |
| 83 | |
| 84 | 4. You may distribute the programs of this Package in object code |
| 85 | or executable form, provided that you do at least the following: |
| 86 | |
| 87 | accompany any non-standard executables and testcases with |
| 88 | their corresponding Standard Version executables and |
| 89 | testcases, giving the non-standard executables and |
| 90 | testcases non-standard names, and clearly documenting the |
| 91 | differences in manual pages (or equivalent), together with |
| 92 | instructions on where to get the Standard Version. |
| 93 | |
| 94 | 5. You may charge a reasonable copying fee for any distribution of |
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| 96 | Package. You may not charge a fee for this Package itself. However, |
| 97 | you may distribute this Package in aggregate with other (possibly |
| 98 | commercial) programs as part of a larger (possibly commercial) |
| 99 | software distribution provided that you do not advertise this |
| 100 | Package as a product of your own. |
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| 102 | 6. The scripts and library files supplied as input to or produced |
| 103 | as output from the programs of this Package do not automatically |
| 104 | fall under the copyright of this Package, but belong to whomever |
| 105 | generated them, and may be sold commercially, and may be aggregated |
| 106 | with this Package. |
| 107 | |
| 108 | 7.Subroutines supplied by you and linked into this Package shall |
| 109 | not be considered part of this Package. |
| 110 | |
| 111 | 8. The name of the Copyright Holder may not be used to endorse or |
| 112 | promote products derived from this software without specific prior |
| 113 | written permission. |
| 114 | |
| 115 | 9. THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR |
| 116 | IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED |
| 117 | WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. |
| 118 | |
| 119 | The End |
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