The code we submit in WebKit has to be BSD or LGPL compatible code. (/me remember how hard it is to find real world CSS BSD compatible chunk to write a perf test)
I found http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/cc300389.aspx then you have to see if that is ok for us. In any case the copyright is Microsoft. On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 9:31 PM, Adam Barth <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Dave Tharp <[email protected]> wrote: >> I am currently looking at the WebKit CSS3 failures on IETestCenter >> (http://samples.msdn.microsoft.com/ietestcenter/ ). >> >> I’m making some progress, and getting ready to submit a patch. I’ve >> contacted Beth Dakin about my approach on the first patch, and she says I >> should proceed. >> >> As part of the patch, of course I need to submit a passing layout test. >> This is where a question for the community arises: >> >> Presuming it is legal (I have my legal department looking at it), I think >> it makes sense to bring in the tests verbatim from the IETestCenter site. I >> do understand that there will likely be some overlap (thus, inefficiency) in >> coverage, but I think having a complete, identical set of tests will make it >> easier to verify WebKit’s performance in this test suite. There is a >> precedent for this: the IETestCenter javascript tests are already present >> in the LayoutTests tree. > > Assuming there are no legal barriers, importing the whole test suite > would be valuable. The LayoutTests contain a number of test suites > developed externally (e.g., acid3, W3C conformance tests). Some of > these tests are redundant with other tests, but having the whole test > suite as a unit is valuable itself. > >> The alternative is to write new tests or enhance existing tests in the >> current LayoutTests tree. >> >> I’m open to either approach, just need some direction from the team. > > That path is also fine. I would encourage you to import all of the IE > test center CSS tests (assuming it passes legal muster). > > Adam > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev -- Alexis Menard (darktears) Software Engineer INdT Recife Brazil _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
