At Wed, 18 Jan 2006 21:01:06 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > > * Werner Koch: > > > Feel free to use this list for now. If the traffic increases too much > > to disturb otehr discussions we could think about moving the GPL topic > > to somewhere else. > > Okay. > > The section on source code does not mention test suites. Have they > been considered at all? > > For sufficiently complex software, a suite of regression tests is > extremely helpful for making modifications. However, in some areas, > there is a strong interest in proprietary test suites (in the GCC > context, for example). Forced publication of test suites would unduly > extend the scope of software copyright. That's why I'm not sure if > anything should be done about this.
Because you don't distribute (or propagate in GPLv3 terms) anything when running a test suite on a program, I don't see how the GPL could enforce anything about test suites. Jeroen Dekkers _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
