Re: benchmarks (was Re: Progress on a Classpath mauve suite?)

[Andrew Haley]

David P Grove writes:

 > I think you need to understand the point of the benchmark suite.
 > The whole goal is reproducible science, so if someone doesn't cite
 > the exact version of the benchmarks, then it isn't useful (in an
 > academic sense).  The license forces that plus proper academic
 > credit (ie a citation) for the benchmark suite, which personally I
 > think is quite fair

It's unlikely that anyone will disagree with that.  The question is
whether copyright law is a reasonable way to enforce it.

Andrew.