The MIT license is equivalent to the standard no-advertising-clause BSD license that we use in WebKit. It would be acceptable.
- Maciej On Jan 21, 2010, at 6:11 PM, David Levin wrote: > I didn't see a web page about it, but when you submit a patch, every single > bullet mentions only BSD or LGPL 2.1 is accepted. > > If you are sending in a patch to existing WebKit code, you agree by clicking > below that your changes are licensed under the existing license terms of the > file you are modifying (i.e., BSD license or GNU Lesser General Public > License v.2.1, LGPL v. 2.1). Please also add your copyright (name and year) > to the relevant files for changes that are more than 10 lines of code. > If you are sending in a new file for inclusion in WebKit (no code copied from > another source), the preferred license is BSD, but LGPL 2.1 is an option as > well. Please include your copyright (name and year) and license preference > (BSD or LGPL 2.1). By clicking below you agree that your file is licensed > under either the BSD license or LGPL 2.1, as indicated in your file. > If you aren't the author of the patch, you agree to include the original > copyright notices and licensing terms with it, to the extent that they exist. > If there wasn't a copyright notice or license, please make a note of it. > Generally we can only take in patches that are BSD- or LGPL-licensed in order > to maintain license compatibility within the project. > > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Adam Barth <[email protected]> wrote: > According to that site, the package is available under: > > License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License > > Is that compatible with being landed in the svn.webkit.org tree? > > Adam > > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Dirk Pranke <[email protected]> wrote: > > Autoinstall appears to be pretty flaky for me at the moment, and these > > aren't the sort of scripts that can be flaky :) I'll install > > simplejson into WebKitTools/simplejson as part of the patch and we can > > clean it up once things are stable. > > > > -- Dirk > > > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Eric Seidel <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Be aware, there are a couple known issues with our current autoinstall > >> setup: > >> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33632 > >> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33365 > >> > >> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Adam Barth <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> This page makes it looks like we can just autoinstall simplejson: > >>> > >>> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/simplejson/ > >>> > >>> IMHO, that's better than checking it in. > >>> > >>> Adam > >>> > >>> > >>> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Eric Seidel <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> We also have webkitpy/autoinstall.py which knows how to download > >>>> modules on-demand. This is useful in the case that you're using code > >>>> with an incompatible license. > >>>> > >>>> see webkitpy/__init__.py for an example of how we pull in mechanize > >>>> (which is a HUGE module, with a compatible license for most files, but > >>>> includes a bit of code which is not compatible). > >>>> > >>>> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 1:39 PM, David Levin <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>> So far, things have been put in place with other files (like the python > >>>>> websockets code) but I think that is confusing for a number of reasons: > >>>>> 1. The level of review needed varies imo between 3rd party code that is > >>>>> being used vs new code added to wk. > >>>>> 2. The style never seems to match what is done for the rest of WebKit. > >>>>> 3. It becomes unclear how to update it because there aren't always good > >>>>> concise instructions about this. > >>>>> Personally, I'd much prefer a ThirdParty directory to check these things > >>>>> into which we could use to help address these things. > >>>>> dave > >>>>> > >>>>> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Dirk Pranke <[email protected]> > >>>>> wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Hi all, > >>>>>> > >>>>>> I'm about to upload a patch that depends on third-party python code > >>>>>> (simplejson). The patch is a bunch of scripts that'll live under > >>>>>> WebKitTools/Scripts . Is there an appropriate place for the simplejson > >>>>>> code? In the absence of a better location, I'll probably check it in > >>>>>> under WebKitTools. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> -- Dirk > >>>>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>>>> webkit-dev mailing list > >>>>>> [email protected] > >>>>>> http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>>> webkit-dev mailing list > >>>>> [email protected] > >>>>> http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> webkit-dev mailing list > >>>> [email protected] > >>>> http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > >>>> > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> webkit-dev mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > >> > > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
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