Re: Non-free file in pate js_utils plugin

On 12/02/2013 06:40 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
> Currently in kate master, the jshint utility is bundled along with the
> pate js_utils plugin in the file
> addons/kate/pate/src/plugins/js_utils/jshint.js.
>
> Portions of this file are under Douglas Crockford's JSON license,
> which is widely considered non-free, including by the Free Software
> Foundation [1], Debian [2], Fedora [3], and even Google [4].
>
> Given that it's considered non-free by the FSF, it's almost certainly
> incompatible with the GPL used by the rest of the Kate application.
> This license is also not approved to be in any KDE source repository
> [5].

 > Unless the KDE project has a substantially different opinion regarding
 > the acceptability of this license, this file should be removed at
 > once.

+1, remove it, it is clearly not in compliance with kde's licensing 
policies.

-- Rex