[SciPy-dev] Is "Creative Commons: Attribution" an acceptable license for datasets included in scipy ?

Robert Kern robert.kern at gmail.com
Tue Jan 12 10:15:08 EST 2010


On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 02:01, David Cournapeau <david at silveregg.co.jp> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>     Everything is in the title - I have some new IO code for
> scipy.sparse I would like to include in scipy, and the tests include
> some dataset under this license. Should I remove them before inclusion ?

Yes. Just generate some random data. There is no need to bother with
licensed data for tests.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless
enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as
though it had an underlying truth."
  -- Umberto Eco



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