On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:47 AM, Tim Wintle <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 07:10 -0800, Paul Lindner wrote:
> > Correct, it's included with yui and closure.  John was asking if the
> > closure compiler could be used during runtime.  That requires
> > redistributing rhino, etal which is problematic.
>
> Yup, I just meant to point out there is the same licensing issue with
> other javascript compressors (i.e. yui) as it's based off rhino too.
>

Just to clarify, is the problem with redistributing rhino a question of the
MPL licence?  Note that a slightly modified version of Rhino is
redistributed with Sun's Java 1.6 onwards.


>
> Tim
>
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 3:38 AM, Tim Wintle <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >         On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 01:12 -0800, Paul Lindner wrote:
> >         >
> >         > Sadly I don't think it would be possible to bundle
> >         closure-compiler
> >         > directly
> >         > with shindig since it contains closed-source jars, requires
> >         Java 6 and
> >         > also seems to incorporate rhino (which I believe is
> >         LGPL/GPL/MPL, not
> >         > Apache licensed)
> >
> >
> >         As I understand it, Rhino is MPL/GPL, and is included in both
> >         YuiCompressor and Closure-compiler. (It's definitely been
> >         modified in
> >         YuiCompressor and so I assume in closure compiler)
> >
> >         Tim Wintle
> >
> >
>
>

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