[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] tests: switch to a test image that is under public domain

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 02:27:45PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 02:22:08PM +0200, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
> > On 26.08.2014 14:11, Clément Bœsch wrote:
> > >On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 01:52:19PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > >[...]
> > >>>I'm fine with the patch, even though Lena has a special meaning in video
> > >>>processing...
> > >>
> > >>yep, i wonder if this is the best solution after sleepng over it.
> > >>the lena image is well known, also people know how girls look,
> > >>people will recognize artiacts easily in it.
> > >>Noone would easily notice if a flower has a different color tone or
> > >>some spots. So it may be better to actually try to keep using lena
> > >>
> > >
> > >Yes. Also, the picture is really under fair use in FFmpeg…
> > >
> > >See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lenna.png#Fair_use_for_Playboy
> > 
> > Yes, it falls under fair use for FFmpeg. But Debian only accepts
> > files with a DFSG-free license [1], which lena.pnm lacks.
> > 
> 
> > >>In that light ive posted a naive patch that just downloads lena.pnm
> > >>if its missing, a 3rd alternative to that would be to move it to the
> > >>fate suite as andreas initially suggested.
> > >
> > >It's really insane to wget this in a code that worked without access to
> > >the net. The wget is unexpected here. Also, this is probably not going to
> > >help for the package since the goal is to run the tests depending on the
> > >picture.
> > 
> > Downloading lena.pnm won't work for example on Debian's build
> > daemons, which don't allow access to the internet during package
> > build.
> 
> the build daemons run make fate ?
> because the download should only happen when the file is needed
> and its only needed for the tests
> 
> 
> > Moving this file to the external fate samples would be fine, because
> > these test are not run, when building the Debian package, anyway.

also if the build daemons do run the tests, they wont have it
through the external fate samples then either if they have no net
access

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