[racket-dev] The Clark XML tests & licensing

I think you want 'inflate'. IIUC, .zip files contain 'pkzip'-format
compressed stuff.

Robby

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <samth at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Robby Findler
> <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>> Doesn't file/gunzip do that?
>
> From the documentation, that seems to be about files that use gzip,
> not zip.  I didn't think they were the same, but I don't know much
> about this stuff.
>
> Trying it, it doesn't seem to work:
>
> -> (gunzip "xmltest.zip")
> ; gnu-unzip: bad header [,bt for context]
>
>
>> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <samth at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>>> Summary: we are currently violating the license of James Clark's XML
>>> test suite, and should fix this.
>>>
>>> Currently, the `tests/xml' directory [1] contains a comprehensive
>>> collection tests for XML parsing from James Clark [2].  The
>>> readme.html file [3] in that directory states the license of that test
>>> suite:
>>>
>>>  Copyright (C) 1998 James Clark. All rights reserved. Permission is
>>>  granted to copy and modify this collection in any way for internal use
>>>  within a company or organization. Permission is granted to
>>>  redistribute the file <code>xmltest.zip</code> containing this
>>>  collection to third parties provided that no modifications of any kind
>>>  are made to this file. Note that permission to distribute the
>>>  collection in any other form is not granted.
>>>
>>> See in particular the last sentence.  We're clearly violating this
>>> license, since we distribute the unzipped collection.  We need to fix
>>> this.
>>>
>>> Fortunately, this should be easy to fix.  We need to do the following:
>>>
>>> 1. Remove the 'clark-tests' directory.
>>> 2. Add the 'xmltest.zip' file.
>>> 3. Unzip the file on-demand when running the tests.
>>>
>>> Currently, we don't have a Racket interface to unzip files.  We could
>>> use the command-line 'unzip' tool, or write such an interface., or
>>> perhaps someone's already written one.
>>>
>>> [1] https://github.com/plt/racket/tree/master/collects/tests/xml/clark-tests
>>> [2] ftp://ftp.jclark.com/pub/xml/xmltest.zip
>>> [3] https://github.com/plt/racket/blob/master/collects/tests/xml/clark-tests/readme.html
>>> --
>>> sam th
>>> samth at ccs.neu.edu
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>
>
>
> --
> sam th
> samth at ccs.neu.edu