X Test Suite Redux

[Dan Nicholson]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Aaron Plattner <aplattner at nvidia.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 03:09:06PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
>> 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.
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> Okay.  I did touch a bunch of files in tet, but it was easy to use a script
> to do it (vim is awesome).  There are still a ton of warnings to go in
> xts5, but I think this is a good start.

Finally got back to xts and pushed this up. Sorry for the huge lag.
Thanks for fixing some of the warnings!

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Dan