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2602 mdb ::sockparams SEGV Reviewed by: Gordon Ross <gordon.w.ross@gmail.com> Reviewed by: Milan Jurik <milan.jurik@xylab.cz> Approved by: Richard Lowe <richlowe@richlowe.net>
author Andrey Sokolov <keremet@solaris.kirov.ru>
date Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:11:05 -0400
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1 #
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2 # CDDL HEADER START
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3 #
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4 # The contents of this file are subject to the terms of the
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5 # Common Development and Distribution License (the "License").
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6 # You may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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7 #
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8 # You can obtain a copy of the license at usr/src/OPENSOLARIS.LICENSE
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9 # or http://www.opensolaris.org/os/licensing.
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10 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions
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11 # and limitations under the License.
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12 #
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13 # When distributing Covered Code, include this CDDL HEADER in each
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14 # file and include the License file at usr/src/OPENSOLARIS.LICENSE.
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15 # If applicable, add the following below this CDDL HEADER, with the
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16 # fields enclosed by brackets "[]" replaced with your own identifying
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17 # information: Portions Copyright [yyyy] [name of copyright owner]
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18 #
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19 # CDDL HEADER END
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23 # Copyright (c) 2008, 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
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26 OK, so you've got approval to integrate code, and you want to know how to
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27 properly communicate the license terms. What do you do next?
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29 0. Determine whether your code should be covered by Oracle copyright,
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30 CDDL, and/or a third party license. If only Oracle copyright and/or
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31 CDDL, then skip to step 3.
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33 1. Scan the source code and extract all of the third party licenses
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34 into one or more separate files.
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36 This information may be present in comments in source code, or may
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37 already be provided as separate files. For example, GPL license
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38 terms are often found in files named "COPYING."
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40 A. In general, you'll name these files "THIRDPARTYLICENSE," and
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41 you'll put one in each source directory (i.e. one per library,
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42 or one per command, or one per kernel module.)
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44 EXAMPLE: usr/src/uts/common/io/pcan/THIRDPARTYLICENSE
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46 If this file proves unmanageable, or you're adding licenses
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47 that really are independent of each other, you may instead
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48 create multiple "THIRDPARTYLICENSE.foo" files, where "foo"
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49 obviously corresponds to the license in question.
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51 EXAMPLE: usr/src/lib/libsmbfs/smb/THIRDPARTYLICENSE.*
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53 B. If you planned ahead and included graceful delimiters in your
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54 source code, the THIRDPARTYLICENSE files may actually be build
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55 targets in your Makefiles.
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57 EXAMPLE: usr/src/cmd/perl/Makefile
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59 If the corresponding copyright will change dates frequently,
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60 then this approach can work well, because you won't need to
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61 update the license files manually.
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63 If you do this, then your license file should be a dependency of
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64 both the all and install targets, and should be removed via
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65 clobber, usually by way of CLOBBERFILES.
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67 2. Give each of the license files a corresponding ".descrip" file with
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69 or "PORTIONS OF ARCANE FUNCTIONALITY" is sufficient.
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71 EXAMPLE: usr/src/cmd/refer/THIRDPARTYLICENSE.descrip
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73 3. Figure out which packages deliver objects that are built using the
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74 new source, and add license actions to the package manifest(s).
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76 A. It's extremely rare for a package NOT to include a Sun copyright
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78 have a Sun copyright and CDDL, then your package should have license
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79 actions like this:
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81 license lic_CDDL license=lic_CDDL
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82 license cr_Sun license=cr_Sun
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85 copyrights or licenses, you can use
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87 license license_in_headers license=license_in_headers
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88 license path/to/most/common/copyright/file \
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90 license path/to/most/common/license/file \
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91 license=path/to/most/common/license/file
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93 C. For your new license files, the path you use in your license
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94 actions should be relative to ${CODEMGR_WS}.
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97 speaking, nothing besides directories) you should include the Sun
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98 copyright but not the CDDL.
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100 E. As with any other action that is architecture dependent, license
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101 actions may be preceded by $(blah_ONLY), where "blah" corresponds
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102 to $(uname -p).
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104 If you don't add the appropriate license actions to package
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105 manifests, then your license and description files will show up as
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106 unreferenced in the build.