[Fedora-legal-list] Good, not Evil in jsmin-php

[Mathieu Bridon (bochecha)]

Hi,

On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 14:43, David Nalley <david at gnsa.us> wrote:
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> An update to zikula bundles jsmin-php (http://code.google.com/p/jsmin-php/)
> I started to work on packaging this, and struck upon this potential
> licensing issue.
> Google lists this as MIT licensed, however the text of the license
> contains this line in addition to the MIT license:
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>  * The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.
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> That strikes me as non-free, but figured I would ask.
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> Thoughts?

JSMin is not free [1]

I asked here about a Python implementation of JSMin [2] and got the
same answer [3] and thus had to remove it from the OpenLayers source
archive.

Best regards,


[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455507
[2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-legal-list/2009-August/msg00000.html
[3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-legal-list/2009-September/msg00014.html


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Mathieu Bridon (bochecha)