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Andy Seaborne resolved JENA-232. -------------------------------- Resolution: Not A Problem Assignee: Andy Seaborne W3C also makes test materials available under a 3-clause BSD license: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2008/03-bsd-license.html which does work for Jena. See http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2008/04-testsuite-copyright.html for full details. > W3C Test materials are not open source; they can not be included in the > source-release. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: JENA-232 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JENA-232 > Project: Apache Jena > Issue Type: Task > Components: ARQ, Jena > Reporter: Andy Seaborne > Assignee: Andy Seaborne > Priority: Minor > > The W3C test suite, applying to tests created after 2008, has a special > license: > http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2008/04-testsuite-license.html > This license does not meet the criteria for open source because it does not > permit modification. > (see [1] Item 3). The primary source release artifact for an Apache project > must contain only open source material. > This will affect tests produced by the current (2012) RDF and SPARQL working > groups. > The core and ARQ source-release artifacts need to ensure that the W3C test > materials are not included, and that will also mean running the tests needs > to cope wih the fact some of the tests are not available. > The project can use the W3C tests for internal testing. > Jena can point to the location for the tests so someone in receipt of the > source release can retrieve them (the framework for running the tests is > included in the product. > [1] http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira