| Subject: | testfiles/xmltest.xml seems non-distributable |
Hi,
while preparing a new version of the XML::SAX Debian package, I noticed
a licensing problem with 'testfiles/xmltest.xml'.
The copyright notice is:
Copyright 1998-1999 by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All Rights Reserved.
with no information on a license for redistribution or modification.
The file seems to originate in the OASIS XML conformance test suite.
It's a slightly modified version of the one inside a tarball found at
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xml-conformance/suite-v1se/xmlconf-20010315.tar.gz
with a readme.html file in the same directory stating:
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.
The rest of the test suite is not included in XML::SAX; this file
seems to be just an example of a large XML document. It should be
trivial to remove or replace with another one.
I have purged the file from the Debian package for now and disabled the
corresponding tests. This is <http://bugs.debian.org/452872>.
Cheers,
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Niko Tyni
ntyni@debian.org