[Zope-dev] z3c.javascript license question

[Tres Seaver]

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Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> On svn.zope.org we have a library called z3c.javascript. Never got 
> released to pypi, but it did get released to download.zope.org/distribution
> 
> It basically contains a pile of javascript libraries. These have very 
> non-ZPL licenses.
> 
> I wonder whether anyone at zope corporation ever got permission for 
> checking these in?
> 
> What shall we do with this stuff? I'm tempted to remove it wholesale, 
> except z3c.widget uses bits in it, and that in turn is used by 
> megrok.form, which is how all this came to light. z3c.widget is released 
> on pypi (though newer releases exist in download.zope.org/distribution 
> again).
> 
> Wwe will probably be able to rewrite megrok.form to lose the z3c.widget 
> dependency easily enough, so I'm going to propose we do this on grok-dev.

I see no ZC-employee checkins at all in the svn log, which starts in May
2006.  This thread from October 2006 points out licensing issues:

 http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?group=gmane.comp.web.zope.zope3&article=19324

+1 to removal, perhaps after some kind of svn export process.:  those
who maintain the package should host it elsewhere.  The tarballs should
be removed from download.zope.org, as well.



Tres.
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