question about a license

When trying to cleanup syscalls/getitimer03.c, i meet a strange license. It says:

*********************************************************************

/*
* $Copyright: $
* Copyright (c) 1984-2000
* Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.
*$
* This software is furnished under a license and may be used
* only in accordance with the terms of that license and with the
* inclusion of the above copyright notice. This software may not
* be provided or otherwise made available to, or used by, any
* other person. No title to or ownership of the software is
* hereby transferred.
*/

*********************************************************************

Here is my question,
1. Can i change this license to GPL2? or
2. Can i modify code of the case under this license?

Could you please provide me any pointer/suggstion. :)

Quoted 24 lines · On Wednesday 24 April 2013 05:32:56 [email protected] wrote:

Quoted 24 lines

When trying to cleanup syscalls/getitimer03.c, i meet a strange license. It says:

*********************************************************************

/*
* $Copyright: $
* Copyright (c) 1984-2000
* Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.
*$
* This software is furnished under a license and may be used
* only in accordance with the terms of that license and with the
* inclusion of the above copyright notice. This software may not
* be provided or otherwise made available to, or used by, any
* other person. No title to or ownership of the software is
* hereby transferred.
*/

*********************************************************************

Here is my question,
1. Can i change this license to GPL2? or
2. Can i modify code of the case under this license?

Quoted 6 lines

Quoted 1 line

Could you please provide me any pointer/suggstion. :)

Given that the testcases is a few lines that calls getitimer() with invalid value, I would play safe and rewrite it from scratch.

Anybody has different opinion?

there are four such files:
testcases/kernel/syscalls/getitimer/getitimer03.c testcases/kernel/syscalls/getresgid/getresgid01.c testcases/kernel/syscalls/nftw/Makefile testcases/kernel/syscalls/nftw/nftw64.h

the Makefile has at least be rewritten enough that i think we can change things as the code has largely been written by Garrett Cooper now

if we can't locate someone (Wayne Boyer?) for the tests, i suggest looking at what they test (just read the comment block), then delete the file and write a new test from scratch.

the header file i think might be accidental as none of the nftw files look that way. instead, they have the ibm copyright. so i'd just change it to that. -mike

Quoted 41 lines · Mike Frysinger

Quoted 24 lines · On Wednesday 24 April 2013 05:32:56 [email protected] wrote:

Quoted 24 lines

When trying to cleanup syscalls/getitimer03.c, i meet a strange license. It says:

*********************************************************************

/*
* $Copyright: $
* Copyright (c) 1984-2000
* Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.
*$
* This software is furnished under a license and may be used
* only in accordance with the terms of that license and with the
* inclusion of the above copyright notice. This software may not
* be provided or otherwise made available to, or used by, any
* other person. No title to or ownership of the software is
* hereby transferred.
*/

*********************************************************************

Here is my question,
1. Can i change this license to GPL2? or
2. Can i modify code of the case under this license?

Quoted 6 lines

Quoted 1 line

Could you please provide me any pointer/suggstion. :)

Given that the testcases is a few lines that calls getitimer() with invalid value, I would play safe and rewrite it from scratch.

Anybody has different opinion?

there are four such files:
testcases/kernel/syscalls/getitimer/getitimer03.c testcases/kernel/syscalls/getresgid/getresgid01.c testcases/kernel/syscalls/nftw/Makefile testcases/kernel/syscalls/nftw/nftw64.h

the Makefile has at least be rewritten enough that i think we can change things as the code has largely been written by Garrett Cooper now

Quoted 7 lines

if we can't locate someone (Wayne Boyer?) for the tests, i suggest looking at what they test (just read the comment block), then delete the file and write a new test from scratch.

the header file i think might be accidental as none of the nftw files look that way. instead, they have the ibm copyright. so i'd just change it to that. -mike

Wayne is still at IBM (Sequent was acquired by IBM). I have CC'd him on this thread.

If you'd elaborate on what sort of permission/assistance you need for this copyright issue, I'm sure Wayne would be happy to cooperate.

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Quoted 42 lines · Mike Frysinger

Quoted 25 lines · On Wednesday 24 April 2013 05:32:56 [email protected] wrote:

Quoted 25 lines

When trying to cleanup syscalls/getitimer03.c, i meet a strange license. It says:

*********************************************************************

/*

* $Copyright: $
* Copyright (c) 1984-2000
* Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.
*$
* This software is furnished under a license and may be used
* only in accordance with the terms of that license and with the
* inclusion of the above copyright notice. This software may not
* be provided or otherwise made available to, or used by, any
* other person. No title to or ownership of the software is
* hereby transferred.
*/

*********************************************************************

Here is my question,
1. Can i change this license to GPL2? or
2. Can i modify code of the case under this license?

Quoted 6 lines

Quoted 1 line

Could you please provide me any pointer/suggstion. :)

Given that the testcases is a few lines that calls getitimer() with invalid value, I would play safe and rewrite it from scratch.

Anybody has different opinion?

there are four such files:
testcases/kernel/syscalls/getitimer/getitimer03.c testcases/kernel/syscalls/getresgid/getresgid01.c testcases/kernel/syscalls/nftw/Makefile testcases/kernel/syscalls/nftw/nftw64.h

the Makefile has at least be rewritten enough that i think we can change things as the code has largely been written by Garrett Cooper now

Quoted 7 lines

if we can't locate someone (Wayne Boyer?) for the tests, i suggest looking at what they test (just read the comment block), then delete the file and write a new test from scratch.

the header file i think might be accidental as none of the nftw files look that way. instead, they have the ibm copyright. so i'd just change it to that. -mike

Wayne is still at IBM (Sequent was acquired by IBM). I have CC'd him on this thread.

If you'd elaborate on what sort of permission/assistance you need for this copyright issue, I'm sure Wayne would be happy to cooperate.