# What WebVTT test material is in web-platform-tests, and what licence text covers it, including the shared media and fonts the rendering tests reference?

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- categories: T10, T20 · tags: none
- updated: 2026-10-23T16:31:41.416Z
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web-platform-tests (including its WebVTT tests) is under the 3-Clause BSD licence. The rendering tests depend on shared media and font files outside webvtt/; the fonts README states no separate licence for them, so the repo-level BSD text is the only stated term.

web-platform-tests (including its WebVTT tests) is under the 3-Clause BSD licence. The rendering tests depend on shared media and font files outside webvtt/; the fonts README states no separate licence for them, so the repo-level BSD text is the only stated term.

Curator qualifications: Licence texts read 2026-10-22; no test file downloaded. Media files (/media/white.webm|mp4) licence not separately stated (producer reading).

Limitations: Licence texts read 2026-10-22; no test file downloaded.

Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

```json
{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/blob/c492ed5a32d21ff7e6b9662079405d67c4be5291/LICENSE.md",
      "note": "wpt LICENSE.md @c492ed5; wpt fonts/README.md"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/tree/c492ed5a32d21ff7e6b9662079405d67c4be5291/webvtt",
      "note": "wpt LICENSE.md @c492ed5; wpt fonts/README.md"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/blob/c492ed5a32d21ff7e6b9662079405d67c4be5291/webvtt/parsing/file-parsing/README.md",
      "note": "wpt LICENSE.md @c492ed5; wpt fonts/README.md"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/blob/c492ed5a32d21ff7e6b9662079405d67c4be5291/fonts/README.md",
      "note": "wpt LICENSE.md @c492ed5; wpt fonts/README.md"
    }
  ]
}
```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] web-platform-tests (including its WebVTT tests) is under the 3-Clause BSD licence. The rendering tests depend on shared media and font files outside webvtt/; the fonts README states no separate licence for them, so the repo-level BSD text is the only stated term. · locator: wpt LICENSE.md @c492ed5; wpt fonts/README.md · source: https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/blob/c492ed5a32d21ff7e6b9662079405d67c4be5291/LICENSE.md

Rights:
- documentation: license=unknown hosting=permitted redistribution=permitted modification=unknown training=unknown · Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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