>> >> I got this bug report on the Debian BTS. >> >> libxml2 testsuite includes several testfiles that are unclear if they >> are DFSG free. These seem to downloaded from various websites, without >> being aware that typically websited do not allow redistributing their >> content without permissions. >> >> Atleast the following files were spotted to be probably nonfree >material >> >> test/HTML/fp40.htm - Microsoft Frontpage readme file >> test/HTML/wired.html - Wired.com frontpage >> test/HTML/test2.html - Old linuxtoday.com page >> test/slashdot.rdf - slashdot rss feed >> test/slashdot.xml - slashdot rss feed >> test/slashdot16.xml - slashdot rss feed >> test/wap.xml - <!-- (C) 1999, 2000 WAP Forum Ltd. All rights >> reserved --> >> >> While it is an obvious issue for Debian, it is also one for libxml2 >> upstream, that I think you should do something about. > > If you really care about it provide a patch which randomizes the content >of those but keep the structure, it will still test the parser as it should >and I think it would avoid the problem of redistributing the content. I >doubt >one can consider reusing a document structure to be a content copyright >infrigement. > I take patches :-), it will of course also affect the structure.
What about the rest of test file, are they licensed under MIT same as libxml2? _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
