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

[John Jolly]

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.

If this is a mistake in the copyright header - i.e. if you think Intel
might have forgotten to update their copyrights, shouldn't these headers
be removed?

/*------------------------------------------------------------------------
**
**      Copyright (c) 1996,  Intel Corp.  All rights reserved.
**
**      THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF
**      Intel Corp.
**      The copyright notice above does not evidence any
**      actual or intended publication of such source code.
**
**
**      Module: getopt.c
**
**      Source: PAL, Intel Corp.        Mike Ripley
**
**      Abstract:
**              This is source for the standard getopt() library.
**              Original source was obtained from the public domain,
**              and modified to better suit DOS and Win32 environments.
**
**      Environment:
**              Microsoft Win32
**              Microsoft Visual C++ 4.0


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