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The Open Group Test Suite License Preamble
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The intent of this document is to state the conditions under which a Package
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may be copied, such that the Copyright Holder maintains some semblance of
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artistic control over the development of the package, while giving the users
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of the package the right to use and distribute the Package in a more-or-less
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customary fashion, plus the right to make reasonable modifications.
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Testing is essential for proper development and maintenance of standards-based
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products.
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For buyers: adequate conformance testing leads to reduced integration costs
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and protection of investments in applications, software and people.
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For software developers: conformance testing of platforms and middleware greatly
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reduces the cost of developing and maintaining multi-platform application
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software.
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For suppliers: In-depth testing increases customer satisfaction and keeps
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development and support costs in check. API conformance is highly measurable
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and suppliers who claim it must be able to substantiate that claim.
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As such, since these are benchmark measures of conformance, we feel the integrity
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of test tools is of importance. In order to preserve the integrity of the
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existing conformance modes of this test package and to permit recipients of
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modified versions of this package to run the original test modes, this license
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requires that the original test modes be preserved.
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If you find a bug in one of the standards mode test cases, please let us know
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so we can feed this back into the original, and also raise any specification
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issues with the appropriate bodies (for example the POSIX committees).
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Definitions:
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"Package" refers to the collection of files distributed by the Copyright Holder,
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and derivatives of that collection of files created through textual modification.
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"Standard Version" refers to such a Package if it has not been modified, or
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has been modified in accordance with the wishes of the Copyright Holder.
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"Copyright Holder" is whoever is named in the copyright or copyrights for
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the package.
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"You" is you, if you're thinking about copying or distributing this Package.
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"Reasonable copying fee" is whatever you can justify on the basis of media
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cost, duplication charges, time of people involved, and so on. (You will not
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be required to justify it to the Copyright Holder, but only to the computing
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community at large as a market that must bear the fee.)
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"Freely Available" means that no fee is charged for the item itself, though
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there may be fees involved in handling the item. It also means that recipients
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of the item may redistribute it under the same conditions they received it.
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1. You may make and give away verbatim copies of the source form of the Standard
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Version of this Package without restriction, provided that you duplicate all
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of the original copyright notices and associated disclaimers.
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2. You may apply bug fixes, portability fixes and other modifications derived
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from the Public Domain or from the Copyright Holder. A Package modified in
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such a way shall still be considered the Standard Version.
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3. You may otherwise modify your copy of this Package in any way, provided
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that you insert a prominent notice in each changed file stating how and when
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you changed that file, and provided that you do at least the following:
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rename any non-standard executables and testcases so the names do not conflict
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with standard executables and testcases, which must also be provided, and
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provide a separate manual page for each non-standard executable and testcase
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that clearly documents how it differs from the Standard Version.
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4. You may distribute the programs of this Package in object code or executable
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form, provided that you do at least the following:
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accompany any non-standard executables and testcases with their corresponding
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Standard Version executables and testcases, giving the non-standard executables
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and testcases non-standard names, and clearly documenting the differences
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in manual pages (or equivalent), together with instructions on where to get
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the Standard Version.
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5. You may charge a reasonable copying fee for any distribution of this Package.
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You may charge any fee you choose for support of this Package. You may not
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charge a fee for this Package itself. However, you may distribute this Package
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in aggregate with other (possibly commercial) programs as part of a larger
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(possibly commercial) software distribution provided that you do not advertise
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this Package as a product of your own.
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6. The scripts and library files supplied as input to or produced as output
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from the programs of this Package do not automatically fall under the copyright
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of this Package, but belong to whomever generated them, and may be sold commercially,
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and may be aggregated with this Package.
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7.Subroutines supplied by you and linked into this Package shall not be considered
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part of this Package.
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8. The name of the Copyright Holder may not be used to endorse or promote
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products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
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9. THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES,
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INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND
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FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. The End
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