Re: Test suites for System Applications Specs

On Friday, July 26, 2013 at 9:05 PM, Chris Weber wrote:

> On 7/26/2013 1:20 AM, Marcos Caceres wrote:
> > I agree. These look really great - the depth of coverage seems
> > fantastic! With your permission (and/or collaboration) it would be
> > great if we could adapt them to test app://. First thing would be to
> > put them under a suitable license (or make them CC0 [1]). See: 
> > http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2008/04-testsuite-copyright.html
> 
> 
> 
> I'm happy to collaborate. And I will set a suitable license asap. It
> sounds like the W3C Test Suite license does not allow modification, and
> would not be preferable, am I understanding that correctly?

If I understand, it just doesn't allow a tester to change the tests and to then claim conformance. However, it's been a while since I read the license, but don't remember anything particularly restrictive or bad about it from a development POV.  

Received on Tuesday, 30 July 2013 07:44:45 UTC