In the past, we've used autoinstall to make use of library code that doesn't have a compatible license, assuming that the library is freely distributed on the Internet. However, that approach does not seem appropriate for this particular use.
Adam On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Dirk Pranke <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > In the course of working on new-run-webkit-tests, I find myself > needing to implement a variant of some code normally provided in the > Python standard library. Attempting to implement this in a clean room > manner will be painful and nonobvious, so I'd just as soon just > cut&paste the relevant code over and modify it. However, doing so > would require me to include the appropriate license info, and I'm told > that the PSF license may not necessarily be already approved for > inclusion into the tree. > > Anyone have any thoughts on this? The code in question is the > implementation of the os.walk() routine (about 10 lines of code), > which needs to be emulated using an in-memory implementation of a > filesystem that uses a dictionary of files. the PSF license is here: > http://docs.python.org/license.html . It is GPL-compatible but more > liberal. > > -- 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
