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<p>Licenses for distribution of W3C Test Suites should satisfy two goals:</p>
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  <li>Enable developers to use test cases easily, and promote software
    development and bugtracking.</li>
  <li>Enable a W3C Working Group to create a branded, "Authoritative W3C Test
    Suite" to reflect the group consensus process, and to promote
    interoperability and stability of performance claims.</li>
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<p>To achieve these goals, W3C makes available Test Suites under two distinct
licenses for two mutually exclusive uses:</p>
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  <li>a <a href="03-bsd-license.html">3-clause BSD License</a> for software
    development, bugtracking, and other applications that do not require
    assertions of performance to the public or implied claims of conformance
    to a W3C Specification. See <a href="#lic1">summary of 3-clause BSD License</a>.</li>
  <li>a <a href="04-testsuite-license.html">W3C Test Suite License</a> for
    an Authoritative W3C Test Suite or when claims of performance with
    respect to a specification are required. See <a href="#lic2">summary of W3C Test Suite License</a>.</li>
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<p>The choice of license is up to the licensee for every single use of tests
from a W3C Test Suite. It will typically depend on usage requirements:
the first one allows changes, the second does not. See below for <a href="#howtouse">how to use the licenses</a>.</p>

<p>W3C encourages community development of Test Suites and welcomes
contributions (see <a href="/2004/10/27-testcases.html">policies for
contribution of test cases to W3C</a>), which will then be distributed
under these two licenses. If you wish to contribute (e.g. altered)
test cases, please contact the relevant Working Group and review
the contribution policies.</p>

<h2 id="lic1">Summary of Use of the BSD
Test Suite license for Software Development</h2>

<p>Under the <a href="03-bsd-license.html">3-clause BSD License</a>, tests
can be copied, altered, and integrated into software development tools,
bugtracking tools, etc. This license allows developers, commercial vendors,
and open source projects to copy tests and alter them as they wish to test
and improve their software. However, if changes are made, the derivative work
must not be distributed with W3C logos, unless W3C gives explicit
permission.</p>

<p><strong>Note:</strong> It is explicitly understood that clause 3 of the BSD license prohibits the assertion of performance claims with respect to W3C<sup></sup> Specifications by claiming successful passing of modified tests.</p>

<h2 id="lic2">Summary of Use of the W3C Test Suite License</h2>

<p>Under the <a href="04-testsuite-license.html">W3C Test Suite license</a>,
a vendor neutral Test Suite is provided to the public, implementers and page
authors so they may test performance of software or content with respect to
a W3C Specification. Tests published under this license can be copied and
used for any purpose, but no modifications are permitted. Consequently,
performance claims can only be made against <strong>unaltered tests.</strong>
Under this license, tests of a W3C Test Suite are
protected by <a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ipr-notice#Copyright">copyright</a> and by the <a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ipr-notice#W3C_Trademarks">W3C trademark</a>. Copies of tests from a W3C
Test Suite created for the purpose of allowing assertion of performance claims with respect to W3C<sup></sup> Specifications are implicitly made under this license.</p>

<p>The creation of a subset of a Test Suite is considered a derivative work,
thus a violation of the rights of the collection. Consequently it either does
not allow claims of performance and the use of the name <q>W3C</q> or it requires
a special license from W3C.</p>

<p>Test Suites may distinguish the test harness (or, framework for
navigation) and the actual tests. For these Test Suites,
the prohibition of change only
applies to the tests. The <a href="04-testsuite-license.html">W3C Test Suite
license</a> is based on the <a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-documents">
W3C Document license</a> but gives further rights concerning navigation/harness
and the use of the W3C trademark in performance claims.</p>

<h2 id="howtouse">How to Use The Licenses</h2>

<p>For either license, include the following statement in a Test Suite (HTML
markup shown):</p>

<blockquote>
<p>Distributed under both the &lt;a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2008/04-testsuite-license"&gt;W3C Test Suite License&lt;/a&gt; and the
   &lt;a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2008/03-bsd-license"&gt;W3C 3-clause BSD License&lt;/a&gt;. To contribute to a W3C Test Suite,
see the &lt;a href="http://www.w3.org/2004/10/27-testcases"&gt;policies and contribution forms&lt;/a&gt;.</p>
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<h3 id="q1">How does this affect test suites published prior to this policy?</h3>

<p>It does not affect existing test suites until they are modified
to include the new license.
We encourage parties who manage W3C test suites to update the
test suite to include the <a href="#howtouse">license statement</a>
shown above. Depending on the organization of the test suite, it
may be necessary to update both "cover pages" and individual test
cases.</p>


<h2 id="disclaimer">Disclaimer</h2>

<p>UNDER BOTH MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE LICENSES, THIS DOCUMENT AND ALL DOCUMENTS,
TESTS AND SOFTWARE THAT LINK THIS STATEMENT ARE PROVIDED "AS IS," AND
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CONTENTS WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY THIRD PARTY PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS, TRADEMARKS OR
OTHER RIGHTS.</p>

<p>COPYRIGHT HOLDERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF ANY USE OF THE DOCUMENT OR THE
PERFORMANCE OR IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CONTENTS THEREOF.</p>
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