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Opened 10 years ago
Closed 10 years ago
#12229 closed task (fixed)
Plugin needs a license
Reported by: | Ryan J Ollos | Owned by: | Peter Suter |
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Priority: | normal | Component: | TableSorterPlugin |
Severity: | normal | Keywords: | license nolicense |
Cc: | Trac Release: |
Description
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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Summary: | License → Plugin needs a license |
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Resolution: | → fixed |
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Status: | new → closed |
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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.