Hi,
On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 8:42 PM Daniel Shahaf <[email protected]> wrote: > > Huxing Zhang wrote on Thu, 21 Mar 2019 09:43 +00:00: > > The dubbo admin 0.2.0 release candidate contains a front end project > > which is based on Nodejs and npm. There is a transitive dependency > > called wordwrap[1], in this dependency there is a file called > > idleness.txt which is written by Bertrand Russell, the copyright text > > is as follows[3]: > > > > "In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays (1932) – Copyrighted in the > > United States until 2027 due to Renewal R320904" > > > > wordwrap is a dev dependency, which means it is only used during > > development, and won't be used in production. The npm dependency tree > > is as follows: > > > > [email protected] > > ./dubbo-admin-ui > > ├─┬ [email protected] > > │ └─┬ [email protected] > > │ └── [email protected] > > └─┬ [email protected] > > └─┬ [email protected] > > └─┬ [email protected] > > └─┬ [email protected] > > └─┬ [email protected] > > └── [email protected] > > > > The problem is that when a user download the source code, and type > > "npm install", the wordwrap will be downloaded together with the > > idleness.txt file. > > Great question. I don't know whether it's a problem (the copyright > renewal doesn't necessarily mean the copyright owner withholds > redistribution rights), but have y'all considered asking wordwrap > upstream to use a public domain text in their test suite to remove > all doubt? I've filed issue there[1], other community member has filed issue for eslint[2] and webpack[3]. The problem is that the activity of this project seems ceased. The last commit was May 8, 2015. What if there is no reply from the wordwrap project? [1] https://github.com/substack/node-wordwrap/issues/21 [2] https://github.com/eslint/eslint/issues/11536 [3] https://github.com/webpack/webpack/issues/8936 > > I never expected to see Russel's name on _this_ mailing list. :) > > Cheers, > > Daniel -- Best Regards！ Huxing
