> > On Monday, March 28, 2005, at 12:56 AM, Toon Moene wrote: > > How do we deal with this, copyright-wise ? Do we have to take special > > care when deriving test-cases from them ? > > The canonical method I use is to delete all aspects of the program that > don't influence the bug, comments, unused/unneeded functions, > variables, statements and expressions. After that first step, usually > we wind up with something that doesn't contain enough to be covered by > copyright. From there, we just check it in. People that would be > shocked and horrified that we do this, should not submit bug reports.
The code for these testcases submitted so far are about 12 lines a piece and have almost nothing which can tell where they came from (Other than comments in the code). -- Pinski
