Hi Benoit, Thanks for the fast reply. It's sad how legal stuff stays in the way of simplifying problems.
Just another question (I am very curious today, it seems). Do other licenses have the same impediment? I mean, for example, BSD license. CGS On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Benoit Chesneau <bchesn...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 12:29 PM, CGS <cgsmcml...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > After seeing quite some reports due to this error provided by the > > configuration script (and hitting the same problem myself while > installing > > CouchDB), I was wondering why SpiderMonkey is not shipped with CouchDB? > Is > > there any particular reason for that or it's just the lack of manpower to > > do that job? > > > > Maybe there is a trivial answer for that question which I miss and I > know I > > am not the only one who gave a thought about that, but I am wondering why > > such an idea didn't pass the developers vote (especially when Jason's > > buildcouch is using this idea). Just curiosity. > > > The license is a problem. It can't be hosted at apache. > > Another solution is using refuge from http://refuge.io. Spidermonkeyt > is built statically. > > - benoît >
