Re: Intent to package: lmbench
: > 1. You may not distribute results in any public forum, in any publication,
: > or in any other way if you have modified the benchmarks.
:
: This means it has to go into non-free. From the DFSG:
That's fine, I don't particularly care if it is considered free or non free.
: 3. Derived Works
: The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must
: allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license
: of the original software.
:
: At least, I think that not being able to distribute results counts as
: different terms. [Though I can understand why he phrased it that
: way, I'd prefer that he had used a "you must call it something else"
: clause.]
If you want to take a crack at a license that you would like better, I
will consider it. The main point which must be preserved, was to insure
the integrity of the benchmark. I had horrible problems with somebody
that modified it in bad ways and wanted to call it lmbench - and that
license saved my butt.
In addition, lmbench generates some small amount of web traffic and I'm
not interested in somebody putting up results along with advertising,
nor am I very thrilled with somebody else maintaining the results
database; I tend to sift through those by hand before publishing.
Also, for whatever it is worth, lmbench is in active development right
now - I'm trying to figure out how to make it a MP benchmark - that might
have to wait until lmbench3. lmbench2 needs some sort of Configure
script and I haven't done it yet (I am ashamed to admit that to this
day I haven't really figured out autoconf). It's a no op for Linux,
it just works there...
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