Copyright information of images under features/steps/test_files/

[merkys]

I am considering python-docx for inclusion in Debian. Debian requires all files in the archive to adhere to its free software guidelines, in short, all files should be modifiable and distributable. python-docx ships images under features/steps/test_files/ which at least to me seem to have different copyright that specified in top-level LICENSE file, at least Lena test image is copyrighted by the Playboy magazine. It would be great to know the copyright holders and their licenses of all the test images there.

Alternatively, I can exclude the test images from the source copy included in Debian. This will impact behave tests for images.

[scanny]

I think excluding those images is fine. I expect folks rarely run the tests and even more rarely run the behave tests because they use a somewhat obscure package. That and anyone who wants to run those can download the source from GitHub.

I'd like to replace those images with something non-problematic. The tests would be easy to update since there's nothing distinctive about those images we depend upon other than their file format. But I don't get into the code base too much these days so that wouldn't happen immediately.

I'll mark this for shortlist attention and perhaps remedy this for the next release. In the meantime I expect losing those files wouldn't negatively impact folks to speak of.

[merkys]

Thanks for prompt response. Since there is nothing distinctive about these images, I suggest replacing them by public domain/CC0 files from Wikimedia Commons.