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I don't see why the license of a piece of software used to check the
codebase (i.e. the linter) infects the codebase being checked.  That would
be like saying the Google terms of service under which I'm writing this
email (Google Apps) infects the codebase.

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On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 6:53 PM, Ben Nemec <openstack at nemebean.com> wrote:

> I think that would be a good idea.  We're not shipping this, we're just
> using it in test (AIUI), so I don't think incompatibility with the
> OpenStack license is necessarily an issue.  But IANAL. :-)
>
> -Ben
>
>
> On 04/02/2014 09:24 AM, Kevin Conway 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?
>>
>> 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 ;)
>>>
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