(including Huxing) On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 10:55 PM Hen <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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] >> >>
