I forgot to mention that if we want to deal with these license
problems properly then it's not as easy as asking from just license
holders since we have there 2 types of licenses - BSD and MIT. That
means that we cannot just delete one of those and use only one and we
cannot multi-license just like that either. To do it properly we'd
have to ask from any contributor so far for their permission and if we
can't get hold of some or cannot get permission then we'd have to
delete their contribution and rewrite it with our own code. That would
be a proper way to handle this kind of situations unfortunately. I'm
not sure if it's done in real life like that with real projects. I've
heard that they did something like that with Mozilla project a while
ago (e.g. deleted some parts of the code and rewrote these due to
being unable to contact all contributors).

Just FYI.

Jarmo

On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Jarmo <[email protected]> wrote:
> I agree on everything with Bret. I don't see any point of moving
> watir-simple to contrib. We'll just mention in the CHANGES that it got
> deleted and if anyone is using it then they can grab it from some old
> gem or from git.
>
> Jarmo
>
> On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Bret Pettichord <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Željko Filipin
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> I guess I will have a few questions related to source cleanup, so I have
>>> decided to start a new thread:
>>>
>>> 1) We have licenses all over the place:
>>>
>>> http://github.com/bret/watir/blob/master/watir/lib/watir/ie.rb
>>> http://github.com/bret/watir/blob/master/firewatir/LICENSE
>>> http://github.com/bret/watir/blob/master/commonwatir/LICENSE
>>> http://github.com/bret/watir/blob/master/watir/lib/license.rb
>>> http://github.com/bret/watir/blob/master/watir/lib/watir/winClicker.rb
>>>
>>> Should I move it to LICENSE file located in root?
>>
>> Makes sense.
>>
>>> 2) Should we delete installer folder?
>>>
>>> http://github.com/bret/watir/tree/1.6.5.rc2/watir/installer/
>>
>> Yes
>>
>>
>>>
>>> 3) Should we delete watir-simple?
>>>
>>> http://github.com/bret/watir/blob/master/watir/lib/watir/watir_simple.rb
>>
>> Yes
>>
>>>
>>> 4) Should we delete these files:
>>>
>>> http://github.com/bret/watir/blob/master//.project
>>> http://github.com/bret/watir/blob/master//transform-results.xsl
>>> http://github.com/bret/watir/blob/master/commonwatir/.project
>>> http://github.com/bret/watir/blob/master/firewatir/.loadpath
>>> http://github.com/bret/watir/blob/master/firewatir/.project
>>> http://github.com/bret/watir/blob/master/watir/.project
>>> http://github.com/bret/watir/blob/master/watir/unittests/.cvsignore
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> The transform result was used for the CI results. I don't think there are
>> any plans to resuscitate this.
>>
>>>
>>> 5) Looks like these files need to be updated:
>>>
>>> http://github.com/bret/watir/blob/master/watir/building_watir.txt
>>> http://github.com/bret/watir/blob/master/watir/install_dev_gems.bat
>>> http://github.com/bret/watir/blob/master/watir/watir_release.txt
>>>
>>> I could do everything except 5)
>>>
>>> Željko
>>>
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