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 ?
On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 09:28:43AM -0800, Mike Stump wrote: > 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. Eben Moglen gave us (the SC) some guidelines when the issue of cleaning up the test suite came up. I'm not sure if that can be made public or not. We don't have to get to the point of "doesn't contain enough to be covered by copyright".
