Summary: we are currently violating the license of James Clark's XML test suite, and should fix this.
Currently, the `tests/xml' directory [1] contains a comprehensive collection tests for XML parsing from James Clark [2]. The readme.html file [3] in that directory states the license of that test suite: Copyright (C) 1998 James Clark. All rights reserved. Permission is granted to copy and modify this collection in any way for internal use within a company or organization. Permission is granted to redistribute the file <code>xmltest.zip</code> containing this collection to third parties provided that no modifications of any kind are made to this file. Note that permission to distribute the collection in any other form is not granted. See in particular the last sentence. We're clearly violating this license, since we distribute the unzipped collection. We need to fix this. Fortunately, this should be easy to fix. We need to do the following: 1. Remove the 'clark-tests' directory. 2. Add the 'xmltest.zip' file. 3. Unzip the file on-demand when running the tests. Currently, we don't have a Racket interface to unzip files. We could use the command-line 'unzip' tool, or write such an interface., or perhaps someone's already written one. [1] https://github.com/plt/racket/tree/master/collects/tests/xml/clark-tests [2] ftp://ftp.jclark.com/pub/xml/xmltest.zip [3] https://github.com/plt/racket/blob/master/collects/tests/xml/clark-tests/readme.html -- sam th [email protected] _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
