Re: Tests and copyright

[David Engster]

PJ Weisberg writes:
> On Aug 13, 2013 12:50 PM, "David Engster" <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> I'm currently migrating our EIEIO test suite to Emacs, and I'm wondering
>> if files in the tests/ directory fall under the same rules w.r.t. to
>> copyright/papers?
>
> I don't see why they wouldn't,  if they're distributed.  They're just as much
> the original work of an author.

AFAIK, they are not distributed with the tarballs. Also, at least I do
not consider them part of "the Emacs source code", but I'm not a lawyer.

Anyway, I was just hoping that I wouldn't have to wade through years of
log history, as if porting test code wasn't boring enough already.

-David