From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/310 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Christian Neukirchen Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Unit tests Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:54:42 +0200 Message-ID: <87wriduvb1.fsf@gmail.com> References: <20110410044515.GB13185@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1312595717 11536 80.91.229.12 (6 Aug 2011 01:55:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 01:55:17 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: envelope-from@hidden Fri Apr 29 11:55:07 2011 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; In-Reply-To: <20110429053605.GA27053@openwall.com> (Solar Designer's message User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:310 Archived-At: Solar Designer writes: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 08:29:31AM +0200, Luka Mar??eti?? wrote: >> I've come up with "C Library Unit Test Suite" - cluts, which sounds like >> "klutz" (besides being klutzy of itself). > > "cluts" sounds good to me. > > What license is it going to be under? I propose cut-down BSD (to the > point of being copyright only, with no restrictions): > > This software is Copyright (c) YEAR YOUR NAME , > and it is hereby released to the general public under the following terms: > > Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without > modification, are permitted. > > This should be compatible with any other Open Source license, which I > think is a plus. We currently use this for contributions to JtR: > > http://openwall.info/wiki/john/licensing > > I see little reason to have GPL-like restrictions on the unit tests; > I think that would do more harm than good. A court-proven formulation of this is the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISC_license I think. > Alexander -- Christian Neukirchen http://chneukirchen.org