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- To: "bug1" <bug1@netconnect.com.au>
- Subject: Re: license for iozone
- From: "Don Capps" <capps@technologist.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 13:51:25 -0600
- Message-id: <00f501bf8225$338de000$01000100@cappsob>
- References: <38BA9DBF.C1850999@netconnect.com.au>
There is no license requirement. The only thing that Iozone requires is that
the
code maintain the information about the authors and contributors. Yep, it is
free and may be re-distributed for free. The copyright is intended to
prevent someone
from creating a commercial package by just taking the code and then selling
it.
I would love to see it become distributed with debian, Redhat, Suse, as well
as other
Unix variants. I have been working on getting it distributed with HP-UX,
NetBSD,
Redhat and others.
I am biased as I have been working on Iozone for many years but in my
opinion it
is a far better tool than Bonnie or Bonnie++. The list of features in
Iozone is almost
longer than the source code for Bonnie :-)
Enjoy,
Don Capps
capps@technologist.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "bug1" <bug1@netconnect.com.au>
To: <capps@technologist.com>
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 10:09 AM
Subject: license for iozone
> I dont see mention of a license for iozone, it appears to be freely
> available.
>
> Im wondering if would be apropriate for packaging with a linux
> distribution like debian.
>
> What restrictions does iozone have on distribution ?
>
> >From the web page iozone looks like a pretty good program, the only
> benchmark program debian has are bonnie and bonnie++, would be great if
> it had another one.
>
> I would have a go at packaging up if you consider it apropriate
>
> Thanks
> Glenn McGrath
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