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2The Open Group Test Suite License
3
4Preamble
5
6The intent of this document is to state the conditions under which
7a Package may be copied, such that the Copyright Holder maintains
8some semblance of artistic control over the development of the
9package, while giving the users of the package the right to use and
10distribute the Package in a more-or-less customary fashion, plus
11the right to make reasonable modifications.
12
13Testing is essential for proper development and maintenance of
14standards-based products.
15
16For buyers: adequate conformance testing leads to reduced
17integration costs and protection of investments in applications,
18software and people.
19
20For software developers: conformance testing of platforms and
21middleware greatly reduces the cost of developing and maintaining
22multi-platform application software.
23
24For suppliers: In-depth testing increases customer satisfaction and
25keeps development and support costs in check. API conformance is
26highly measurable and suppliers who claim it must be able to
27substantiate that claim.
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29As such, since these are benchmark measures of conformance, we feel
30the integrity of test tools is of importance. In order to preserve
31the integrity of the existing conformance modes of this test
32package and to permit recipients of modified versions of this
33package to run the original test modes, this license requires that
34the original test modes be preserved.
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36If you find a bug in one of the standards mode test cases, please
37let us know so we can feed this back into the original, and also
38raise any specification issues with the appropriate bodies (for
39example the POSIX committees).
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41Definitions:
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621. You may make and give away verbatim copies of the source form of
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672. You may apply bug fixes, portability fixes and other
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723. You may otherwise modify your copy of this Package in any way,
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77 rename any non-standard executables and testcases so the
78 names do not conflict with standard executables and
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80 separate manual page for each non-standard executable and
81 testcase that clearly documents how it differs from the
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844. You may distribute the programs of this Package in object code
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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.
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945. You may charge a reasonable copying fee for any distribution of
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1026. The scripts and library files supplied as input to or produced
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105generated them, and may be sold commercially, and may be aggregated
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1087.Subroutines supplied by you and linked into this Package shall
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1118. The name of the Copyright Holder may not be used to endorse or
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