[openstack-dev] [Horizon] Licensing issue with using JSHint in build

Aaron Sahlin asahlin at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Sep 10 17:35:48 UTC 2014


What you are finding is the same as I found, which raised my concern.

Thanks for the pointer to legal-discuss at lists.openstack.org, I will post 
the question there (let the lawyers figure it out).




On 9/10/2014 12:16 PM, Solly Ross wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jeremy Stanley" <fungi at yuggoth.org>
>> To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2014 1:10:18 PM
>> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Horizon] Licensing issue with using JSHint in build
>>
>> On 2014-09-10 13:00:29 -0400 (-0400), Solly Ross wrote:
>>> JSHint *isn't* Douglas Crockford. It was written by someone who
>>> (understandably) thought Douglas Crockford had some good ideas,
>>> but was overzealous.
>> [...]
>>
>> Overzealous enough to copy his code.
> ?? This sentence doesn't make much sense.  I meant to say that
> Douglas Crockford was overzealous (which he is, IMO).
>
>>> The license is as such:
>>> https://github.com/jshint/jshint/blob/master/LICENSE
>> Ahem. https://github.com/jshint/jshint/blob/master/src/jshint.js#L19
> Fair enough.  I stand corrected.  I didn't catch that.
> The general license, however, is as stated.
>
>>> You are thinking of JSLint, which is written by Douglas Crockford.
>> JSHint is a derivative project of JSLint. Sorry to burst your
>> bubble.
> To be fair, it's been undergoing *major* revisions lately, making it resemble
> JSHint less and less in terms of what it checks for.  Having used it in the
> past, functionality wise it's very different.  While it maintains some backwards
> compatibility, it has added in new checks, doesn't complain about nearly the number
> of things that JSLint complains about (for good reasons).
>
>> --
>> Jeremy Stanley
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