+1 on talking to lawyers. Some more context: JSHint is a fork of JSLint, from which the problem license originates. The team has made a significant effort to strip out and replace JSLint code, however there remains one file which they haven’t tackled yet. There’s a large discussion here, including a statement where the author of the original license calls it “ineffective”. https://github.com/jshint/jshint/issues/1234 Michael On Apr 2, 2014, at 7:24 AM, Kevin Conway <kevinjacobconway at gmail.com> wrote: > 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? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/attachments/20140402/3ebfc64a/attachment.html>