[Zope-dev] z3c.javascript license question

[Roger Ineichen]

Hi Tres

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

I remember that I added a correct license header some years ago
for z3c.javascript.

This code was at least some years ago used by the lovely
systems guys. Not sure this days.

Regards
Roger Ineichen