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