# Availability of testing data associated with VTK and ParaView
**URL:** https://discourse.vtk.org/t/availability-of-testing-data-associated-with-vtk-and-paraview/6481
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 26, 2021, 11:55pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/availability-of-testing-data-associated-with-vtk-and-paraview/6481 "2021-08-26T23:55:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@MatthewFlamm](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/MatthewFlamm)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2021, 11:55pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/availability-of-testing-data-associated-with-vtk-and-paraview/6481/1 "2021-08-26T23:55:49Z")
I see that there is data used for testing [VTK](https://vtk.org/download/) and [ParaView](https://www.paraview.org/download/) or at [data.kitware.com](http://data.kitware.com), but there is no explicit license associated with those datasets that I can find. I was looking into using a few of the datasets for integrating into testing of PyVista and wanted to inquire whether this is acceptable use.
Thank you,
Matthew Flamm
---
### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2021, 9:56am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/availability-of-testing-data-associated-with-vtk-and-paraview/6481/2 "2021-08-27T09:56:07Z")
This is a very good question @MatthewFlamm !
The data that can be obtained from [vtk.org](http://vtk.org) and [paraview.org](http://paraview.org) are under the license of VTK and ParaView respectively, which is BSD:
- [https://vtk.org/about/#license](https://vtk.org/about/#license)
- [https://www.paraview.org/paraview-license/](https://www.paraview.org/paraview-license/)
The data available on [data.kitware.com](http://data.kitware.com) sadly has no license applied to them, this looks like an oversight, I’ll investigate internally.
---
### Author:  [@MatthewFlamm](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/MatthewFlamm)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2021, 12:00pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/availability-of-testing-data-associated-with-vtk-and-paraview/6481/3 "2021-08-27T12:00:25Z")
Thanks for the response!
---
### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2021, 12:22pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/availability-of-testing-data-associated-with-vtk-and-paraview/6481/4 "2021-08-27T12:22:16Z")
> [@mwestphal](#):
>
> The data available on [data.kitware.com](http://data.kitware.com) sadly has no license applied to them, this looks like an oversight, I’ll investigate internally.
Seems to be CC BY, but it should be specified somewhere.
---
### Author:  [@MatthewFlamm](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/MatthewFlamm)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2021, 1:08pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/availability-of-testing-data-associated-with-vtk-and-paraview/6481/5 "2021-08-27T13:08:06Z")
> [@mwestphal](#):
>
> Seems to be CC BY, but it should be specified somewhere.
It looks to me that the ParaView dataset on [data.kitware.com](http://data.kitware.com) is a subset of the data on the download site. I assume at least that portion would follow the same license, i.e BSD. The same for the VTK collection too.
---
### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2021, 1:11pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/availability-of-testing-data-associated-with-vtk-and-paraview/6481/6 "2021-08-27T13:11:08Z")
While there is some content in common between the two, not all is.
In any case, both licenses are very permissive.