<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/30/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nedjo Rogers</b> <<a href="mailto:nedjo@islandnet.com">nedjo@islandnet.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> Since the details and reason for this policy seem worthy of capturing for<br>> posterity, I've drafted a brief handbook page,<br>> <a href="http://drupal.org/node/66113">http://drupal.org/node/66113</a>.<br><br>
A small addendum. The LGPL permits the relicensing of any single copy of an<br>LGPL library from LGPL to GPL (article 3 of the LGPL,<br><a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html">http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html
</a>). In three cases in the Javascript<br>Tools package (jscalendar, wforms, columns) I have relicensed LGPL libraries<br>to GPL and included them in CVS. Other modules using LGPL code, e.g.,<br>TinyMCE, presumably could choose to do the same. This practice is in full
<br>compliance with the GPL. I assume it's also in full compliance with Drupal<br>CVS policies, as the software in CVS has only one license, the GPL.<br><br>If there are any issues with this approach, please speak up! Otherwise, I'll
<br>add a note on this to the Handbook page.<br></blockquote></div><br>There is an issue here, although it is in part up to the module maintainer. You *could* check third-party libraries with compatible licenses into CVS, but it's discouraged: the latest releases, bugfixes, security updates, and so on will always be maintained by the source distributor/maintainer of the library/package/whatever.
<br><br>It's "convenient" to have it one package, but it's more work for the maintainer to keep up with the upstream packages, and then be maintaining non-Drupal code in Drupal CVS.<br><br>It's especially discouraged if the libraries are very large....this last factor is no longer as big an issue now that we have solid hosting/support.
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