Re: [Zope-dev] z3c.javascript license question

2009-04-17 Thread 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.zope3article=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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Re: [Zope-dev] z3c.javascript license question

2009-04-17 Thread 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:
 
  
 http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?group=gmane.comp.web.zope.
zope3article=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.

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

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Re: [Zope-dev] z3c.javascript license question

2009-04-17 Thread Tres Seaver
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Roger Ineichen wrote:
 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:

  
 http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?group=gmane.comp.web.zope.
 zope3article=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.
 
 I remember that I added a correct license header some years ago
 for z3c.javascript.

There are several checkins which mention adding licenses for the
varioius JS libraries:  the problem is that non-ZC contributors are
never supposed to check in any code which they don't own, and which they
can therefore license under the ZPL.  The purpose of this restriction
was to ensure that folks using software from the repository could be
confident that they didn't need to audit licenses, because effectively
everything would be ZPL:  the few exceptions were supposed to have been
verified as being compatible with (and equally or more permissive than)
the ZPL.

I think I recall that Jim ripped out an integration package for the Ext
Javascript framework precisely because the licensing for Ext was
initially questionable, and later became outright unacceptable.

Now that the copyrights are transferred to the Zope Foundation,
essentially *nobody* can check in non-ZPL code, without a special
exemption from the ZF board or its delegate (nobody is yet appointed to
handle this).


Tres.
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Re: [Zope-dev] z3c.javascript license question

2009-04-17 Thread Benji York
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Tres Seaver tsea...@palladion.com wrote:

 I think I recall that Jim ripped out an integration package for the Ext
 Javascript framework precisely because the licensing for Ext was
 initially questionable, and later became outright unacceptable.

Yep, you recall correctly.
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Re: [Zope-dev] z3c.javascript license question

2009-04-17 Thread Behrang Dadsetan
Hi!


2009/4/18 Tres Seaver tsea...@palladion.com:
[super snip]
 Now that the copyrights are transferred to the Zope Foundation,
 essentially *nobody* can check in non-ZPL code, without a special
 exemption from the ZF board or its delegate (nobody is yet appointed to
 handle this).

I am looking towards becoming a SVN contributor so this question
interests me a lot.

You mentioned the copyrights were transfered to ZF which is what I
recall reading a while ago.
But when I last checked
http://www.zope.org/DevHome/CVS/Contributor.pdf [1] it said that
contributors transfer their copyright to ZC. Is it a question of the
form being obsolete?

Regards,
Ben.
[1] Note I just checked and it returns a 404 right now...
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Re: [Zope-dev] z3c.javascript license question

2009-04-17 Thread Baiju M
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Tres Seaver tsea...@palladion.com wrote:
[snip
 Now that the copyrights are transferred to the Zope Foundation,
 essentially *nobody* can check in non-ZPL code, without a special
 exemption from the ZF board or its delegate (nobody is yet appointed to
 handle this).

BTW, there is an exemption for this area:
 http://svn.zope.org/repos/main/non-zpl-doc-resources/
(It was created when I asked for adding some resource file for buildout.org)

From the readme file:

  Non-ZPL documentation resources can be checked into this directory if you
  have received explicit permission from the Zope Foundation to do so. The
  workflow currently is simply to mail Martijn Faassen (faas...@startifact.com)
  with a description of what you want to do.

  In order to use these documentation resources in your own sphinx project,
  create a subdirectory here and an svn:external to that subdirectory from
  the sphinx project in question.


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Re: [Zope-dev] z3c.javascript license question

2009-04-17 Thread Chris Withers
Behrang Dadsetan wrote:
 You mentioned the copyrights were transfered to ZF which is what I
 recall reading a while ago.
 But when I last checked
 http://www.zope.org/DevHome/CVS/Contributor.pdf 

I do wish the whole of DevHome would just die :-(
(I believe this is supposed to be happening right now.. Jens? Andreas?)

You really meant to be reading:

http://docs.zope.org/developer/becoming-a-contributor.html

;-)

Chris

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