Minifying a javascript library

Jonathan Underwood jonathan.underwood at gmail.com
Fri Mar 6 13:57:39 UTC 2015


On 6 March 2015 at 03:18, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> Tom Hughes wrote:
>> That may not be possible if the minimiser upstream is using is not, or
>> maybe even cannot be, packaged for Fedora.
>
> Unfortunately, the popular minifier JSMin is non-Free (it contains the "no
> evil" clause, see http://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article46/json-license ) and
> thus cannot be shipped in Fedora.
>
> Minifiers available in Fedora include uglify-js and python-slimit.


Thanks Kevin - I'll ask the FPC to consider adding that info to the
packaging guidelines for js packages.

Jonathan


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