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Wirecloud / wirecloud

Widgets Container and Mashup edition tools. Reference implementation of the FIWARE Application Mashup GE
https://wirecloud.rtfd.io/
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Confirm License #372

Closed jason-fox closed 5 years ago

jason-fox commented 5 years ago

The FOSSA Bot is raising an issue against the licensing of a dependency of this project. I think it's probably OK, but could you confirm that the licensing of the following sub-module is OK?

github.com/Wirecloud/wirecloud  wirecloud-markdown-github

I think the issue is the non-standard exception clause. Is it needed or could a standard License be used instead. I just want to check that this isn't a crayon license and the component can be used for Open Source

mjimenezganan commented 5 years ago

The exception is required so as the obligations to share contributions are not extended to the linked elements, which are widgets and operators. Therefore, the platform itself is ruled by the Affero GPL, but domain-specific widgets and operators, created from scratch or by extension, are not obliged to be published, so proprietary components can be created to be deployed within WireCloud.

The exception is the way we found for addressing this intention.

aarranz commented 5 years ago

Hi Jason,

So, the FOSSA bot is complaining over the wirecloud-markdown-github dependency, is this correct?

In this sense, I can confirm you that the wirecloud-markdown-github dependency is fine. On the one hand it is provided by the WireCloud team, on the other hand it is used only for building documentation, so it is not affecting WireCloud execution.

Moreover, this module was a hack for being able to use the PyMdown Extensions before they were released (we use them to use GFM with MkDocs), but we are moving to use them directly. License for those extension is fully compatible with WireCloud/MkDocs and so on, so I don't see any problem.

jason-fox commented 5 years ago

OK, so effectively this is a false positive from FOSSA Bot. I'll close.