http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/45033/can-i-minify-javascript-that-requires-copyright-notice

Thanks,
Kevin
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From: Matthias Runge [mru...@redhat.com]
Sent: Monday, May 04, 2015 11:17 PM
To: openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [PKG-Openstack-devel][horizon][xstatic] 
XStatic-Angular-Bootstrap in violation of the MIT/Expat license (forwarded 
from: python-xstatic-angular-bootstrap_0.11.0.2-1_amd64.changes REJECTED)

On 05/05/15 05:29, Robert Collins wrote:

>> Probably, but it's legally wrong (ie: worst case, you can be sued) to leave
>> a package which is in direct violation of the license of things it contains.
>
> So,we shouldn't use angular at all then, because as a js framework its
> distributed to users when they use the website, but the license file
> isn't included in that distribution.
Would be good to get a legal position on this.

If we're not allowed to use angular (and anybody else), I wonder how
anyone could use it (following above logic)

Angular.js is licensed under MIT License [1],[2]:
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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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question is, if our use of angular is a substantial portion if this
software.


Matthias

[1] https://angularjs.org/
[2] https://github.com/angular/angular.js/blob/master/LICENSE

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