From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: wsdl test files and licensing Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 23:50:10 +0900 Message-ID: <87oascwk0t.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87oasc62mu.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1415803853 17847 80.91.229.3 (12 Nov 2014 14:50:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 14:50:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Alex Harsanyi , Michael Albinus , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 12 15:50:46 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XoZFt-0003zf-RC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2014 15:50:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55159 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XoZFt-0000kP-Aa for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2014 09:50:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50731) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XoZFe-0000ig-9b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2014 09:50:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XoZFT-0006S9-W8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2014 09:50:30 -0500 Original-Received: from shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.161]:48800) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XoZFT-0006RB-M6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2014 09:50:19 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 077FF1C3AFB; Wed, 12 Nov 2014 23:50:11 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D6D3C1A2844; Wed, 12 Nov 2014 23:50:10 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta34) "kale" acf1c26e3019 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.161 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:176816 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > > Would it be necessary to bring all those files under GPLv3? As said, I > > regard them as test data. > > To the extent that these are not really code files (similarly to he > test/indent/* files, which do contain code snippets but are not meant to > be runnable), I don't think it has to be exactly GPLv3+, But I don't really think Richard or the FSF would be happy without a copyright assignment in which case the current license is moot. However, since these are test files, as a short-run workaround while gathering "papers" or creating new tests, one possibility would be to simply download the WSDL files during the test from the original sites (assuming they're public). If some source decides to change the file and breaks the test, the maintainers would have a copy of the one that they originally downloaded, discover the difference, and fix the test. The sites might not be happy to be used as test fodder, but unless they're really unpopular I doubt they'd notice the load ;-). Not really acceptable in the long run, but at least you could add the code to Emacs and users could have some testing to give them confidence things are working in the short run. Steve