Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] test/compress: replace test vector

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

20/01/2020 14:54, Mcnamara, John:
> From: stable <stable-bounces@dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Thomas Monjalon
> > 15/01/2020 16:54, Akhil Goyal:
> > > > >
> > > > > This patch replaces existing test vector with a new one containing
> > > > > C code to fix license issue.
> > > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Artur Trybula <arturx.trybula@intel.com>
> > > > Acked-by: Fiona Trahe <fiona.trahe@intel.com>
> > > Applied to dpdk-next-crypto
> > 
> > This is a terrible idea.
> > Adding C code in a C project as text, and worst, its own code, will make
> > grep matching on fake text.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I don't think this is a valid criticism. The patch replace code in Pascal with some code in C as a compression test. The grep part isn't really relevant, it should be clear to anyone who finds a match.
> 
> If you have a strong objection we will replace it with some more public domain text.

Yes please, it will be less confusing.

> > Why do you need so much text to compress?

Please why do we need some code at all?

> > Why not just opening our own code files as text?
> 
> That probably isn't worth the effort.
> 
> > Why stable@dpdk.org is Cc'ed in this email?
> 
> Ok. We'll do that.

I say Why? You say Ok :-)

> > What is the license issue?
> 
> The issue is that the Pascal code from the Calgary Corpus (a standard body of compression test input) doesn't have a license or explicitly say that it is in the public domain so it isn't clear if we can relicense  it as BSD-3. We are being overly cautious here but we didn't want to run into any potential license issues.

OK
Please explain in the commit log.