[ofa-general] Possibly proprietary license in dapl2 getopt.c and getopt.h

[Arlin Davis]

John Jolly wrote:
> All,
> 
> Within the dapl2 package, there are two source files:
> 
> dapl-2.0.7/test/dtest/GETOPT.C
> dapl-2.0.7/test/dtest/GETOPT.H
> 
> were derived by Intel Corporation from public domain code originally
> owned by AT&T. Intel modified the code and licensed it under the license
> shown below - effectively a proprietary license which states that it is
> license "free of charge" but does _not_ give sufficient rights to
> actually copy/modify/distribute the code.
> 
> However, we (SuSE/Novell) tried building the package without the files
> (i.e. added a rm in the spec file) and the package built successfully.
> Since they are not used at all, we (SuSE/Novell) have consider removing
> them completely from _source_ and _binary_ (in the same manner that we
> remove e.g. mp3 decoders from the tarball and the binary) as it
> represents an unnecessary business risk for which there is no
> perceivable business advantage to be gained.

These files came in with some WinOF updates. They should not be included
with the Linux distribution package. Hmmm, do you picked up the dapl
package from git tree instead of released packages from OFA downloads?

Either way, you are correct, these files should be removed.

-arlin