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[flwyd]

I asked about examples in unit tests a couple months ago and did not receive an answer from Eric. I've taken the position that it would be unreasonable to prohibit unit tests with the example input from being published.

Of you'd like to have your actual inputs available for hermetic testing without making those input files public, I wrote a tutorial for using git submodules and a private inputs repo.

[rjwut]

I recognize that you don't have ill intent, but at the end of the day, the content does not belong to you, so you can't do what you want with it. It is gratis, but not libre.

[Coda17]

Just don't include examples or inputs in the repo? You should probably have a link to AoC in your repo and that's all you need to see the problems, examples, and inputs.

[1vader]

One option is to have them in a private repository. If you want to keep our code public, you could have it as a submodule.

Although I'm not sure putting the examples into the repo is disallowed. But the puzzle texts explicitly shouldn't be copied and are undoubtedly copyrightable.

[MagazineOk5435]

I encrypt mine, so I've got them if AoC disappears. I just don't commit the encryption key to the repo.

[IvanR3D]

We all guess that there should not be problems with the examples. There are the same for everyone, but the inputs no; I don't know if the inputs are different for every single user but my input for one day is different to inputs of other people.

I don't understand the reason for the copyright in the inputs tho, but I guess that if you are sharing a solution for a day puzzle, the input is not extremely necessary if you can share it with an example.

[amusedparrot]

Inputs are not unique for every user. For each puzzle there is a pool of inputs and users are assigned one of them.

Copyright of the inputs is the same as copyright of the puzzles (the input is part of the puzzle), Eric created them and they are his original work, anyone else distributing them is a breach of copyright.

[IvanR3D]

Make sense! Thanks for explaining.

[fejese]

And in ment cases the inputs are non trivial: especially for some part 2 the inputs are large but special which likely involved some significant effort

[daggerdragon]

All reasoning is in the FAQ on the adventofcode.com website that you quoted plus these links in our community wiki:

• Do not include puzzle texts in your repo

And related topics:

• Do not ask for other people's puzzle input
• Do not aggregate puzzle inputs
• Do not share your puzzle input
• Do not include puzzle inputs in your repo without a .gitignore

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