From 11d99639e93dd15ba7d564bfe3aa8c21cd6c7fa1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marcin Juszkiewicz Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:04:39 +0000 Subject: iozone3: added version 263 IOzone is a filesystem benchmark tool. It has own license which does not allow to distribute derivative works based on this work. This recipe adds patch which change source code to get one util built for ARM platform. Upstream author gave us permission to do it as this patch will get included in next release. --- packages/iozone3/iozone3/copyright.txt | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 62 insertions(+) create mode 100644 packages/iozone3/iozone3/copyright.txt (limited to 'packages/iozone3/iozone3/copyright.txt') diff --git a/packages/iozone3/iozone3/copyright.txt b/packages/iozone3/iozone3/copyright.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3468fa9298 --- /dev/null +++ b/packages/iozone3/iozone3/copyright.txt @@ -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" +To: "Don Capps" ; "William D. Norcott" + +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 + -- cgit 1.2.3-korg