Bug #83149 for Net-IDN-Nameprep: Consider dropping non-free unit test

Wed Feb 06 01:17:15 2013 http://bochecha.id.fedoraproject.org/ - Ticket created

Subject:

Consider dropping non-free unit test

I packaged Net::IDN::Nameprep for Fedora, and during the peer-review, an issue came up with the file t/nameprep_vec.t: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891873#c2 Tom Callaway, the Fedora legal contact asked me to remove this file from the package, as it is non-free: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891873#c7 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891873#c9 You might want to remove this file from the next release tarballs as well.

Wed Feb 06 03:38:29 2013 miyagawa [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added

Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #83149] Consider dropping non-free unit test
Date:	Wed, 6 Feb 2013 00:37:59 -0800
To:	bug-Net-IDN-Nameprep [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Tatsuhiko Miyagawa <miyagawa [...] gmail.com>

IMO you could just remove that copyright notice because "this document" in the notice refers to the internet draft http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-josefsson-idn-test-vectors-00#section-4.2 which is not included in the test file at all, and the sample vector *data* were "converted" to a perl test code, and I don't think it is affected by that statement. The test is a useful test to verify that it passes the sample vector provided in the internet draft. It's ridiculous to claim a copyright on the test vector *data* that should clearly be used for testing implementations. IANAL, but my 2c. On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:17 PM, http://bochecha.id.fedoraproject.org/ via RT <bug-Net-IDN-Nameprep@rt.cpan.org> wrote: Show quoted text

> Wed Feb 06 01:17:15 2013: Request 83149 was acted upon. > Transaction: Ticket created by http://bochecha.id.fedoraproject.org/ > Queue: Net-IDN-Nameprep > Subject: Consider dropping non-free unit test > Broken in: 1.101 > Severity: (no value) > Owner: Nobody > Requestors: bochecha@network-box.com > Status: new > Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83149 > > > > I packaged Net::IDN::Nameprep for Fedora, and during the peer-review, an > issue came up with the file t/nameprep_vec.t: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891873#c2 > > Tom Callaway, the Fedora legal contact asked me to remove this file from > the package, as it is non-free: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891873#c7 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891873#c9 > > You might want to remove this file from the next release tarballs as well.

-- Tatsuhiko Miyagawa

Wed Feb 06 03:38:30 2013 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Fri Feb 08 07:14:19 2013 CFAERBER [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added 15 min

Thanks for your report. I had actually reviewed the license of the Internet-Draft before including the file into the distribution. IMO, the license is compatible with virtually any open source license. As miyagawa already said, "this document" refers to the original Internet- Draft. For derived works, there's basically no restriction. I don't think I can remove the license text, though. The license explicitly forbids that (and the test vectors are, IMO, eligible for copyright). This is unfortunate as the text is misleading. I think the best solution is to keep the license text but add a clarification that "this document" refers to the original Internet-Draft.

Sat Dec 28 21:23:55 2013 CFAERBER [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'stalled'

Sat Dec 28 21:23:55 2013 CFAERBER [...] cpan.org - Taken

Sat Dec 28 21:23:56 2013 CFAERBER [...] cpan.org - Severity Wishlist added

Tue Dec 27 14:17:53 2016 CFAERBER [...] cpan.org - Ticket deleted

Tue Dec 27 14:17:59 2016 CFAERBER [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'deleted' to 'open'

Tue Dec 27 14:18:19 2016 CFAERBER [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'rejected'