Author: ph10 Date: To: 1622 CC: pcre-dev Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] [Bug 1622] New: Test data license
On Sun, 26 Apr 2015, Martin wrote:
> Let me start by saying, I am not a lawyer! I'm writing some OO wrappers around
> pcre and I'd like to use some of the test data for my own unit tests. The
> testinputX files don't include a license/copyright notice. Are they covered by
> the same BSD license as the rest of the project? If copyrighting/licensing the
> test data hasn't crossed your mind before, would you be willing to put the test
> data into the public domain?
Indeed I hadn't considered copyrighting or licensing issues for the test
data, and as far as I'm concerned you can do what you like with it. So
yes, it can be considered public domain. I will put some words to that
effect into the LICENCE file. (Just in time for the 8.37 release of
PCRE1, and I'll also do it for the next release of PCRE2.)
