Dear Douglas Crawford (and Domen Kozar and Pedro Algarvio)-- I am the maintainer of WebHelpers (webhelpers.groovie.org), a Python library that has included _jsmin.py for several years. Recently, a Fedora Linux maintainer informed me that the license is not OSS compatible per their definition, and so they'd have to remove the module from their distribution.
http://bitbucket.org/bbangert/webhelpers/issue/39/non-free-license-of-_jsminpy-taints Complaint: "The license in _jsmin.py is not a recognized OSS-compatible license and has the problematically non-libre "Good, not Evil" clause." License clause: "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil." I'm writing to ask permission to drop this clause from the license. Or even better for our users, to put the module under the WebHelpers license which is a similar MIT-style license: === All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 3. The name of the author or contributors may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. === If not, I'll have to remove _jsmin.py from WebHelpers, because we want it and Pylons in all Linux distributions. Domen and Pedro-- If _jsmin.py goes, minify.py might have to go too. It has no fallback implementation for Javascript compression, and the remaining CSS compression functionality might look funny all alone. As in, it would raise user questions like, Why can I compress this but not that?" On another note, a user has submitted a patch to minify application code and external Javascript libraries (e.g., jQuery) together. Do you think this patch looks like a good idea, and would you like to incorporate it upstream? http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-devel/browse_thread/thread/b08e97c6cb709e04 -- Mike Orr <sluggos...@gmail.com> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to pylons-de...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to pylons-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-devel?hl=en.
