license of tar test data

[danmoseley]

Hello, I would like to add the test .tar files you have in https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/tree/master/tar/test (specifically the data in the *tar*uu files in that directory, uudecoded into .tar files) as test assets for the .NET implementation of tar.

I have read https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/blob/master/COPYING and it states that individual files should have licenses that control but these test assets do not have licenses in them. Could you please clarify the license on these files? Perhaps that's a clarification in COPYING for test assets that don't have their own license statements, or something more specific.

thanks!

[am11]

Related: #1054

The spec file states that the license is BSD https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/blob/2d57843d3c1bd6061df94d2554d3349ef60bf8e3/contrib/libarchive.spec.

[kientzle]

A number of libarchive's tests build a tar archive in memory and then decode it, rather than relying on an external file. In particular, test_tar_large.c exercises correct encoding and decoding of very large archives (up to 1 TB).

You should also look at the pax test files ("pax" format is just another tar variant) and you'll probably want to also grab all of the tar.*.uu files that are compressed with varying compression algorithms. For the compression algorithms you don't support, just exercise the decompressed file.

[danmoseley]

Thanks @kientzle that's helpful. Can you provide clarity however around the files that do not have license statements within them, in case we do want to copy those?

[kientzle]

The top-level COPYING terms applies to any file not explicitly marked otherwise.

[danmoseley]

Thank you @kientzle !