Get rid of them immediately is all I have to say. We cannot have LGPL licensed scripts in our code.
/Anne On 29. jan. 2010, at 10.40, Richard Hirsch wrote: >> I have created ESME-154 and made it a blocker for Release 1.0, to make >> sure a general review of such code is done before the release. > > +1 > > I think many of these files are old ones that are no longer necessary. > Most are linked to the old UI any way.... > > D. > > On 1/29/10, Bertrand Delacretaz <[email protected]> wrote: >> Him >> >> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Richard Hirsch <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> ...We also scripts in SVN with various copyrights. What do we need and >>> what can we toss. Is there a way to pull in these scripts via the >>> build process so that we are not part of our SVN? >>> >>> Here are few examples below: >>> >>> (http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/esme/trunk/server/src/main/webapp/scripts/jquery-1.3.2.min.js?view=markup). >> >> This one's fine, MIT license is ok according to >> http://apache.org/legal/resolved.html >> but the license header must remain intact, see "third-party works" in >> http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html >> >>> >>> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/esme/trunk/server/src/main/webapp/scripts/tip_balloon.js?view=markup >> >> This one's unclear, but according to the next one which is from the >> same source I'd guess it's LGPL, so not good. >> Anyway it doesn't indicate permission to redistribute - to be checked. >> >>> >>> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/esme/trunk/server/src/main/webapp/scripts/wz_tooltip.js?view=markup >> >> This one's LGPL as indicated in the header, so it has to go (see >> http://apache.org/legal/resolved.html). >> >> If it's required for ESME to work, an alternate solution has to be found. >> >> If it's optional, instructing users to download it separately is fine. >> >> Under NO circumstances should license headers of third-party code be >> removed in Apache code repositories - if you see any more LGPL/GPL >> stuff in ESME's SVN please discuss that here. >> >> I have created ESME-154 and made it a blocker for Release 1.0, to make >> sure a general review of such code is done before the release. >> >> -Bertrand >>
