Re: Intent to package some benchmarks programs
On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Hartmut Koptein wrote:
> > >
> > > Sorts of this are: dhrystone, lmbench, nbench-byte, ...
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^
> > Unless my memory is flacky (which
> > it is), this is pretty non-free or
> > worse.
>
>
> This is what i have for the nbench-byte:
>
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This is only a liability disclaimer, not a real license. If the license
doesn't at least explicitly allow one to copy the program, it can't be
distributed at all, not even in non-free.
Remco
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