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diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/licenses/iozone3 b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/licenses/iozone3 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3468fa929 --- /dev/null +++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/licenses/iozone3 @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@ +LICENSE: + + Copyright 1991, 1992, 1994, 1998, 1999, 2002 William D. Norcott + + License to freely use and distribute this software is hereby granted + by the author, subject to the condition that this copyright notice + remains intact. The author retains the exclusive right to publish + derivative works based on this work, including, but not limited to + revised versions of this work. + + + +Below is author reply to question about distributing iozone3 in +OpenEmbedded: + +======================================================================== + +Marcin, + + Re-distribution is permitted as long as the copyright is + maintained and the source code is not changed. I do not + see a problem with your mods to enable fileop for Linux-arm, + as these mods have been returned to the Iozone folks, + and they have been accepted for inclusion in the next + release :-) + +Thank you for your contribution, +Don Capps + +----- Original Message ----- +From: "Marcin Juszkiewicz" <firma@hrw.one.pl> +To: "Don Capps" <don.capps2@verizon.net>; "William D. Norcott" +<wnorcott@us.oracle.com> +Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 4:55 PM +Subject: iozone3 263 patch for arm and License question + + +> Morning +> +> I want to include iozone3 in OpenEmbedded [1] metadata to give it for +> other developers. Currently OE is used to build few distributions for +> misc platforms: ARM, SH3, SH4, x86, PowerPC and different types of +> machines (PDA, settopbox, devboards, desktops, thin clients, routers). +> +> According to your distribution of derivations is forbidden. Packaging +> iozone3 in OpenEmbedded will not involve any source code changes. But +> when I was building it for ARM I discovered that fileop binary was not +> built - so I created patch for it (attached). Not yet tested it on target +> device. +> +> Thus, I seek your written permission via e-mail to distribute a package of +> the unmodified source code and also a package of the pre-compiled binary. +> Your copyright statement will be included in the package. +> +> +> 1. http://www.openembedded.org/ +> +> Regards +> -- +> JID: hrw-jabber.org +> OpenEmbedded developer/consultant + |