Re: New Test Addition To Autotest

[John Darrington]

On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 04:11:51PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
     
     Are the NIST files public domain or otherwise freely licensed, so
     that we can distribute them with PSPP?
     

Good question.  I crawled around the site looking for copyright and/or 
licence notices, but didn't find any.  It might be possible to argue
that the bunch of numbers that are published here contain no creativity
and are thus not copyrightable.  However, it's probably not worth the
risk.

Selma's approach of connecting to the nist.gov site is probably the 
most appropriate one.  Unfortunately it will mean we'll have to 
exclude those tests from the normal "make check" target, but there's
no reason why we cannot have a supplimentary set of tests to do this.

J'

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