X Test Suite Redux

[Dan Nicholson]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Aaron Plattner <aplattner at nvidia.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 06:07:14AM -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote:
>> A while back Peter asked me about helping him add autotools support
>> after he pulled xtest out of cvs into git. We got that handled pretty
>> quickly, but I decided to spend some time making it actually easy to
>> use. So, I give you the revamped XTS:
>>
>>         git://people.freedesktop.org/~dbn/xtest.git
>
> Dan, is xtest really licensed under the "Artistic" license?  I have some
> changes pending to clean up a whole lot of warnings, but I just noticed
> this term in the license:
>
>   3. You may otherwise modify your copy of this Package in any way,
>      provided that you insert a prominent notice in each changed file
>      stating how and when you changed that file, [...]
>
> I'd like to avoid having to go through and add a change note to all 551
> files I've touched so far.

I think the Artistic license applies to the bundled tet code (the test
platform) in src/. This is what License says. However, everything
under xts5 (the test suite itself) appears to be under the X11
license. So, if you've kept your modifications to xts5/, you're OK. Of
course, now it appears I'll have to do that to address the hacking I
did to the test platform to make it behave reasonably. What a weak
license.

--
Dan