Re: [xml] Copyright infringment in libxml2 source tarballs

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 10:22:48AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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.

Daniel

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