Doesn't file/gunzip do that? On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <[email protected]> wrote: > Summary: we are currently violating the license of James Clark's XML > test suite, and should fix this. > > Currently, the `tests/xml' directory [1] contains a comprehensive > collection tests for XML parsing from James Clark [2]. The > readme.html file [3] in that directory states the license of that test > suite: > > 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. > > See in particular the last sentence. We're clearly violating this > license, since we distribute the unzipped collection. We need to fix > this. > > Fortunately, this should be easy to fix. We need to do the following: > > 1. Remove the 'clark-tests' directory. > 2. Add the 'xmltest.zip' file. > 3. Unzip the file on-demand when running the tests. > > Currently, we don't have a Racket interface to unzip files. We could > use the command-line 'unzip' tool, or write such an interface., or > perhaps someone's already written one. > > [1] https://github.com/plt/racket/tree/master/collects/tests/xml/clark-tests > [2] ftp://ftp.jclark.com/pub/xml/xmltest.zip > [3] > https://github.com/plt/racket/blob/master/collects/tests/xml/clark-tests/readme.html > -- > sam th > [email protected] > _________________________ > Racket Developers list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
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