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List:       kde-licensing
Subject:    Re: Non-free file in pate js_utils plugin
From:       Albert Astals Cid <aacid () kde ! org>
Date:       2013-12-07 16:01:19
Message-ID: 1683664.k2IcRT2G8L () xps
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El Dimarts, 3 de desembre de 2013, a les 10:13:00, Rex Dieter va escriure:
> On 12/02/2013 06:40 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
> > Currently in kate master, the jshint utility is bundled along with the
> > pate js_utils plugin in the file
> > addons/kate/pate/src/plugins/js_utils/jshint.js.
> > 
> > Portions of this file are under Douglas Crockford's JSON license,
> > which is widely considered non-free, including by the Free Software
> > Foundation [1], Debian [2], Fedora [3], and even Google [4].
> > 
> > Given that it's considered non-free by the FSF, it's almost certainly
> > incompatible with the GPL used by the rest of the Kate application.
> > This license is also not approved to be in any KDE source repository
> > [5].
> > 
>  > Unless the KDE project has a substantially different opinion regarding
>  > the acceptability of this license, this file should be removed at
>  > once.
> 
> +1, remove it, it is clearly not in compliance with kde's licensing
> policies.

+1111

Albert

> 
> -- Rex
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