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List:       kwrite-devel
Subject:    Re: Non-free file in pate js_utils plugin
From:       Milian Wolff <mail () milianw ! de>
Date:       2013-12-03 15:00:30
Message-ID: 4175551.Nfp8nk7qiO () milian-kdab2
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On Tuesday 03 December 2013 15:41:54 Philipp A. wrote:
> GOD DAMMIT i'm sorry. Afaik only JSLint, not JSHint is under doug's
> modified MIT license (wikipedia is wrong that they allegedly use the same
> license). and the phrase doug added which made JSLint's MIT license nonfree
> is ridiculously "The Software shall be used for good, not evil"… If we
> however identify as "minions of IBM", then we can freely use it, since he
> explicitly allowed IBM (and their minions) to use his software for evil :)
> 
> i still want the user to be able to use JSLint, and there should be a
> solution. while the old python lib that got used to provide JSLint
> functionality "got around it" by downloading JSHint on demand, i doubt that
> this is OK. the only difference is that it's not in our repo, but that
> doesn't change the fact that js_utils used the code before just like it
> uses the code now. so my change only directed attention to it, and didn't
> add a new incompatible license.
> 
> i think we could require the user to click a one-time messagebox which says
> "you're only allowed to lint your JavaScript for good, not for evil", and,
> if he declines, fail to load the js_utils plugin with a
> UserIsEvilException. sounds good?

No. The KDE source code must not contain non-free code which this is. You have 
to remove it from the repository.

Bye
-- 
Milian Wolff
mail@milianw.de
http://milianw.de
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