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#4647 Check licensing compatibility with AL2

Milestone: v1.0.0

Status: closed

Owner: Peter Hartmann

Labels: asf (30)

Component: General

Reviewer: Dave Brondsema

Updated: 2015-08-20

Created: 2012-08-02

Creator: Dave Brondsema

Private: No

See http://incubator.apache.org/projects/allura.html section "Verify distribution rights"

See also http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html

We should go through all our deps in requirements*.txt and check their licensing. Also check for any differently-licensed code files checked into our main codebase.

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Tickets: ~~#4655~~

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Dave Brondsema - 2012-08-06

Created [#4655] for ForgeHg's Mercurial dependency, since that is a known big task.

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Tickets: ~~#4655~~

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Dave Brondsema - 2012-08-06

html2text is GPL. It's used to convert html to markdown, and used by the wiki importer and blog rss importer. The former is already optional, we'll have to make the blog rss importer optional.

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Dave Brondsema - 2012-08-10

size: --> 2
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Dave Brondsema - 2012-11-02

Milestone: forge-nov-16 --> forge-nov-30
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Dave Brondsema - 2012-11-16

Milestone: forge-nov-30 --> forge-dec-14
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Dave Brondsema - 2012-11-30

milestone: forge-dec-14 --> forge-dec-28
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Peter Hartmann - 2012-12-18

status: open --> in-progress

assigned_to: Peter Hartmann
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Dave Brondsema - 2012-12-19

FYI, http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#optional explains how an optional dependency on e.g. GPL'd package is ok

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Peter Hartmann - 2012-12-27

I've pushed a branch with html2text made optional. I've also double-checked licensing of all requirements not so long ago, and checked any new coming since then. There is a potential issue with ActivityStream, which may block this ticket. I've reported it under [#5529].

I see no other issues with dependency licensing, however, I spotted some issues regarding how certain parts of our codebase are licensed:
- Allura/allura/public/nf/js/jquery.maxlength-min.js: file states it's licensed under GNU GPL
- NoWarnings: setup.py passes GPL as a license parameter to setuptools' setup() function, but LICENSE file claims it's licensed under Apache License 2.0

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Tickets: ~~#5529~~

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Dave Brondsema - 2013-01-02

http://keith-wood.name/maxlength.html says jquery maxlength v1.1.0 is available under GPL and MIT, so we should be good (maybe need to upgrade to that version?)

NoWarnings' setup.py can be changed I think. I see only 3 commits to NoWarnings and no external source of code is there, so it's all part of Allura which is Apache licensed now
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Dave Brondsema - 2013-01-03

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Dave Brondsema - 2013-01-03

size: 2 --> 0
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Peter Hartmann - 2013-01-03

status: in-progress --> blocked
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Peter Hartmann - 2013-01-07

status: blocked --> code-review
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Dave Brondsema - 2013-01-08

qa: Dave Brondsema
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Dave Brondsema - 2013-01-09

Nice work. I also moved html2text from requirements.txt to requirements-optional.txt

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Dave Brondsema - 2013-01-09

status: code-review --> closed
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