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

Andreas Cadhalpun andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com
Tue Aug 26 14:22:08 CEST 2014


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.
Moving this file to the external fate samples would be fine, because 
these test are not run, when building the Debian package, anyway.

Best regards,
Andreas


1: https://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines



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