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I understand, and appreciate, the concern for licensing, but it would be a
real shame to discount some of the most widely used linters because of a
clause that prevents us from being evil.

Any chance we could run this by legal-discuss at lists.openstack.org and hear
their reactions before we axe the JS*int projects from OpenStack?

On 4/2/14 8:43 AM, "Radomir Dopieralski" <openstack at sheep.art.pl> wrote:

>On 02/04/14 15:26, Kevin Conway wrote:
>> What licensing issues were brought up that prevent the use of JSLint or
>> JSHint? Both are MIT licensed.
>> 
>> Granted, JSLint has an additional clause:
>> 
>>     The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.
>> 
>> 
>> Maybe that's it? If so, Crockford has been known to make exceptions for
>> organizations that wish to use his code for potentially evil
>> purposes: 
>>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C-JoyNuQJs&feature=player_detailpage#t=2
>>480s.
>
>Yes, that's exactly it. An exception is not enough -- that clause simply
>makes that license incompatible with OpenStack's license. To use it, we
>would need to change OpenStack's license too, and it quickly becomes
>quite complex.
>
>You have to remember that organizations like NSA use OpenStack, so we
>can't possibly include that clause in its license ;)
>
>-- 
>Radomir Dopieralski
>
>
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