RE: [xml] Copyright infringment in libxml2 source tarballs

["Jain, Nilesh" <nilesh jain intel com>]

> > 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?