[Windmill-dev] windmill on ohloh.net prompts some cleanup

[Ted Leung]

On Oct 6, 2007, at 2:18 PM, Mikeal Rogers wrote:

> - Ohlo is showing a variety of licenses in different files. This  
> prompted me to quickly audit the js directories copyright.
>
> cssQuery by Dean Edwards is licensed LGPL -- What do we use this  
> for? Is this something we can pull in externally and not keep in  
> our repo?
> fleegix.js doesn't have copyright, wtf?
> htmlutils.js is copyright thoughtworks -- What do we use this for?
> toolman.js is copyright but I can't tell which license?
> xpath.js has a google license with no copyright info, can we even  
> use this?
> controller.js that still has the thoughtworks copyright info. Is  
> any thougthworks (Selenium) code still in that??

Actually if these files "had copyright" that wouldn't be enough.   We  
need the files to be licensed under a license that is compatible w/  
the Apache license.  the LGPL is definitely not.   Files w/o  
copyright notices are automatically copyrighted by their owners.

>
> I also notice a bunch of files without copyright, naughty naughty,  
> This needs to get fixed before we can release 0.2. **Every** file  
> needs to have OSAF copyright, that includes css, html, even empty  
> files that may some day contain source -- just stick the copyright  
> info in.

Actually, every file that we created needs to have an OSAF copyright  
header.   If we didn't create or modify the file, we shouldn't be  
altering the license headers.

>
> There are still a lot of files with OSAF Copyright 2006, this needs  
> to get changed to OSAF Copyright 2006-2007.

If the file wasn't modified in 2007, we don't need to change the  
copyright notice.

>
> Some of these copyright issues are very serious and we need to fix  
> this before we release 0.2.

+1