Re: MIT/Expat with "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil" statement
2012/4/26 Dmitry Nezhevenko <dion@inhex.net>:
> I'm going to package django-pipeline, that is licensed under MIT/Expat
> license except one file, that is MIT/Expat too but with one addede
> sentence:
> https://github.com/cyberdelia/django-pipeline/blob/master/LICENSE
>
> jsmin.py (License-information from the file)
Ah, the infamous (and evil) jsmin license.
> So it's probably non-free.
Definitely.
> I've a few ideas how to at least workaround it:
> - repack upstream tarball and replace jsmin.py with stub one that returns
> original JS without compressing.
Suboptimal but acceptable in main.
> - don't repack tarball, just patch this jsmin.py using debian/patches so that
> it will not use jsmin at all
Still non-free, not acceptable in main.
> Any other suggestions?
Ask upstream to switch to a sanely licensed JavaScript compressor
(there are several).
--
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