We can make it as optional dependency and provide something else as default minimizer.
I guess jokes make the world spin, literally. Domen On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 15:25 -0700, Mike Orr wrote: > Crockford has spoken, so _jsmin.py will have to go. The Fedora people > also contacted him earlier and got a similar response. I don't know > why he's so obstinate: is a joke in a license really more important > than giving the code to everybody who might benefit from it (which > would seem to be the purpose of an MIT-style license). > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Douglas Crockford <doug...@crockford.com> > Date: Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 2:50 PM > Subject: Re: _jsmin.py license > To: Mike Orr <sluggos...@gmail.com> > > > I don't care what you do so long as you respect my license. > > On 8/9/2010 2:39 PM, Mike Orr wrote: > > > > 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 > > > > > >
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