Fw: New Test Addition To Autotest

[Selma Leathem]

 

Hello,

 

With regards to copyrights, I would imagine that since the website is designed for people to download the data that having it sit on your local computer would not be an issue.

 

Sorry, had an unforeseen issue with regards to dynamic allocation, and so am reworking things a bit, and should be done shortly.

 

The file can be used as either a psuedo preinstallation file to generate all *at files with nist data in it before make check, or to generate temporary *at files during make check but then you would need to be connected to the internet.

 

Regards,

 

Selma

From: John Darrington <address@hidden>
To: Ben Pfaff <address@hidden>
Cc: Selma Leathem <address@hidden>; "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 12:24 AM
Subject: Re: New Test Addition To Autotest

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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