iozone license

[Jiri Kastner]

from iozone.c:

THISVERSION,
  MODE,
  " ",
  "       Original Author: William Norcott ([e-mail])",
  "               4 Dunlap Drive",
  "               Nashua, NH 03060",
  " ",
  "       Enhancements: Don Capps ([e-mail])",
  "               7417 Crenshaw",
  "               Plano, TX 75025",
  " ",
  "  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",
  " ",
  "  Other contributors:",
  " ",
  "  Don Capps       (Network Appliance)        [e-mail]",

it looks like MIT-like license, isn't it?

best regards
jiri kastner

[Dan Horák]

Jiri Kastner píše v St 18. 01. 2012 v 07:54 +0000:
> from iozone.c:
>
> THISVERSION,
>   MODE,
>   " ",
>   "       Original Author: William Norcott ([e-mail])",
>   "               4 Dunlap Drive",
>   "               Nashua, NH 03060",
>   " ",
>   "       Enhancements: Don Capps ([e-mail])",
>   "               7417 Crenshaw",
>   "               Plano, TX 75025",
>   " ",
>   "  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",
>   " ",
>   "  Other contributors:",
>   " ",
>   "  Don Capps       (Network Appliance)        [e-mail]",
>
> it looks like MIT-like license, isn't it?

I think the right to modify the code is missing (only the author can
distribute modified code in the second sentence) making it non-free as a
whole.

Dan

[Tom Callaway]

On 01/18/2012 03:07 AM, Dan Horák wrote:
> I think the right to modify the code is missing (only the author can
> distribute modified code in the second sentence) making it non-free as a
> whole.

This is correct. The iozone license is non-free, I spent sometime trying
to convince the upstream to use a free license a few years ago, and they
did consider it, but they decided that since iozone is a benchmark
suite, they did not want anyone else to have the right to modify the
codebase.

~tom

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