On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 6:26 AM, CGS <cgsmcml...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
No. But its also not strictly a licensing question. There are also distro package teams that would cry foul as well. Plus its usually not a good idea. While it is sad that SpiderMonkey does cause us such issues I'm not convinced that bundling our own copy would do much to solve the issue in general. > > > 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 >>
