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- The Open Group Test Suite License 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.
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- "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.
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- "Copyright Holder" is whoever is named in the copyright or copyrights for
- the package.
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- "You" is you, if you're thinking about copying or distributing this Package.
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- "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.)
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- "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. The End
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