The best thing I have to do is to remove these files soon and adapt the test with another existing dbf file.
Regards, Marc. 2015-11-20 15:14 GMT+01:00 Martin Desruisseaux < [email protected]>: > Hello > > I noticed new test files in the following directory: > > > storage/sis-shapefile/src/test/resources/org/apache/sis/storage/shapefile/ > > I noticed a NOTES.md file (thanks), but I did not saw licence > information in that file. What are the license of those new > "DEPARTEMENT" files? (and the license for the other, older files too?) > Is it a licence compatible with the Apache License? > > An other issue is that "DEPARTEMENT.SHP" is 3 Mb, which is a lot for > just a test file (if it was data needed for application execution, it > would be a different story). Would it be possible to have a much smaller > test file? We rarely need more than a few kb for testing, except if we > want to test scalability (but I think that discussion about scalability > could be another thread). It may also help to avoid licensing issues if > we use a subset small enough for being considered "fair use". For > example in the GR3DF97A.txt test file that I committed this week, I > extracted only a few lines. The resulting test file is only 2 kb. > > Small test files are appreciated because they are included in the ZIP > files that make official Apache releases (the JAR deployed on Maven > Central are not official releases - just commodity), and also for making > history smaller (the SVN is mirrored on GitHub, so even if we delete the > file, its weight will stay in the history). > > Martin > > >
