Give substack a few days to reply and then nudge them on Twitter: https://twitter.com/substack or their email (listed on https://substack.net/ ).
On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 6:57 AM Huxing Zhang <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
