Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] test/compress: replace test vector

["Mcnamara, John" <john.mcnamara@intel.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: stable <stable-bounces@dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Thomas Monjalon
> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2020 9:52 PM
> To: Trahe, Fiona <fiona.trahe@intel.com>; Trybula, ArturX
> <arturx.trybula@intel.com>
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; stable@dpdk.org; shallyv@marvell.com; Dybkowski, AdamX
> <adamx.dybkowski@intel.com>; Danilewicz, MarcinX
> <marcinx.danilewicz@intel.com>; Akhil Goyal <akhil.goyal@nxp.com>
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] test/compress: replace test vector
> 
> 15/01/2020 16:54, Akhil Goyal:
> > > >
> > > > This patch replaces existing test vector with a new one containing
> > > > C code to fix license issue.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Artur Trybula <arturx.trybula@intel.com>
> > > Acked-by: Fiona Trahe <fiona.trahe@intel.com>
> > Applied to dpdk-next-crypto
> 
> This is a terrible idea.
> Adding C code in a C project as text, and worst, its own code, will make
> grep matching on fake text.

Hi,

I don't think this is a valid criticism. The patch replace code in Pascal with some code in C as a compression test. The grep part isn't really relevant, it should be clear to anyone who finds a match.

If you have a strong objection we will replace it with some more public domain text.

> Why do you need so much text to compress?
> Why not just opening our own code files as text?

That probably isn't worth the effort.

> Why stable@dpdk.org is Cc'ed in this email?

Ok. We'll do that.


> What is the license issue?

The issue is that the Pascal code from the Calgary Corpus (a standard body of compression test input) doesn't have a license or explicitly say that it is in the public domain so it isn't clear if we can relicense  it as BSD-3. We are being overly cautious here but we didn't want to run into any potential license issues. 
 
John