I think I can help simplify the license situation. But not right now. Bret
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 4:29 AM, Jarmo <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Wtr-development mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Bret Pettichord > >> Lead Developer, Watir, www.watir.com > >> > >> Blog, www.io.com/~wazmo/blog <http://www.io.com/%7Ewazmo/blog> > >> Twitter, www.twitter.com/bpettichord > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wtr-development mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development > >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wtr-development mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development > -- Bret Pettichord Lead Developer, Watir, www.watir.com Blog, www.io.com/~wazmo/blog Twitter, www.twitter.com/bpettichord
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