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Opened 9 years ago

Closed 9 years ago

#12229 closed task (fixed)

Plugin needs a license

Reported by: Ryan J Ollos Owned by: Peter Suter
Priority: normal Component: TableSorterPlugin
Severity: normal Keywords: license nolicense
Cc: Trac Release:

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Hi Peter. The plugin doesn't have a license in the source. Would you mind adding the license? I've documented some "good practices" here: DevGuide#License. Feedback on the document is appreciated as well. Thanks!

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comment:1 Changed 9 years ago by Ryan J Ollos

Summary: License → Plugin needs a license

comment:2 Changed 9 years ago by Peter Suter

Resolution: → fixed
Status: new → closed

Hi Ryan. Thanks for the reminder. I clarified the licensing in [14480].

This plugin is basically just a thin wrapper around the third-party Javascript library jquery.tablesorter, that is dual licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses.

The actual plugin Python code itself is minimal and trivial. Does it meet the ​threshold of originality? If not, does it even need a license? I don't know, but I added a BSD license anyway now.

Such considerations are missing in the DevGuide. Maybe they are out-of-scope. Authoritative guidance on how to handle bundled third-party libraries would be very helpful though.

I've never seen a convincing rationale for license headers in every file.

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