Comments on: Licensing alert: TinyMCE is not fully LGPL http://fuhry.co.cc/blog/2009/12/13/licensing-alert-tinymce-is-not-fully-lgpl/ Dan Fuhry is a web developer and Linux nerd with weird pet projects, severe audiophilia, one kick-ass wing recipe and who knows what else. Sat, 19 Jun 2010 03:21:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1-alpha By: Dan Fuhry http://fuhry.co.cc/blog/2009/12/13/licensing-alert-tinymce-is-not-fully-lgpl/comment-page-1/#comment-5169 Dan Fuhry Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:26:34 +0000 http://lifecodeidiocy.enanocms.org/?p=157#comment-5169 Matt: That's true - but the goal here is to be compliant with the license terms, not to avoid getting caught. Moreover, if Microsoft has asked for something in a license agreement, it is probably in everyone's best interests to respect that as much as possible. Matt:
That’s true – but the goal here is to be compliant with the license terms, not to avoid getting caught. Moreover, if Microsoft has asked for something in a license agreement, it is probably in everyone’s best interests to respect that as much as possible.

]]> By: Matt Olpinski http://fuhry.co.cc/blog/2009/12/13/licensing-alert-tinymce-is-not-fully-lgpl/comment-page-1/#comment-5159 Matt Olpinski Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:33:45 +0000 http://lifecodeidiocy.enanocms.org/?p=157#comment-5159 That may be true, but there are plenty of open source CMS's that use it amongst other applications and management systems, so having said that, no one will be coming after you for using TinyMCE, thats near impossible to get everyone, they will, if anything, target the distributors, MODx CMS, etc, etc. Kinda the same idea as illegal downloads. they want the people who upload because its impossible to get everyone that downloads, and it will thus help eliminate downloaders. I agree with you though. Microsofts terms and conditions are mad sketchy lol That may be true, but there are plenty of open source CMS’s that use it amongst other applications and management systems, so having said that, no one will be coming after you for using TinyMCE, thats near impossible to get everyone, they will, if anything, target the distributors, MODx CMS, etc, etc. Kinda the same idea as illegal downloads. they want the people who upload because its impossible to get everyone that downloads, and it will thus help eliminate downloaders. I agree with you though. Microsofts terms and conditions are mad sketchy lol

]]> By: Dan Fuhry http://fuhry.co.cc/blog/2009/12/13/licensing-alert-tinymce-is-not-fully-lgpl/comment-page-1/#comment-4728 Dan Fuhry Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:37:09 +0000 http://lifecodeidiocy.enanocms.org/?p=157#comment-4728 Heh, I kinda tossed the new icon set project over to Neal. Thanks for your clarification. I know it wouldn't make TinyMCE pure LGPL, but at least it would put all of it under legitimate and widely known free licenses instead of the iffy license terms Microsoft uses. Sorry for taking so long to approve your comment, Wordpress hasn't been e-mailing me as it should. Heh, I kinda tossed the new icon set project over to Neal.

Thanks for your clarification. I know it wouldn’t make TinyMCE pure LGPL, but at least it would put all of it under legitimate and widely known free licenses instead of the iffy license terms Microsoft uses.

Sorry for taking so long to approve your comment, WordPress hasn’t been e-mailing me as it should.

]]> By: Spocke http://fuhry.co.cc/blog/2009/12/13/licensing-alert-tinymce-is-not-fully-lgpl/comment-page-1/#comment-4616 Spocke Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:23:30 +0000 http://lifecodeidiocy.enanocms.org/?p=157#comment-4616 Just want to clarify some things here. Sizzle is under MIT and it lets you sub license it under LGPL. We keep the MIT intact in all source builds of TinyMCE so we are following the rules of the MIT license. Firebug lite doesn't even have a license there is no license info at all on their site so it's hard to include something that isn't there. At least I couldn't find anything. But it sounds good that you guys are interested in making a skin based on the famfamfam icons. We would really appreciate that contribution but TinyMCE would still not be pure LGPL since those are under creative commons license but at least then we wouldn't have a Microsoft tie there. Just want to clarify some things here. Sizzle is under MIT and it lets you sub license it under LGPL. We keep the MIT intact in all source builds of TinyMCE so we are following the rules of the MIT license. Firebug lite doesn’t even have a license there is no license info at all on their site so it’s hard to include something that isn’t there. At least I couldn’t find anything.

But it sounds good that you guys are interested in making a skin based on the famfamfam icons. We would really appreciate that contribution but TinyMCE would still not be pure LGPL since those are under creative commons license but at least then we wouldn’t have a Microsoft tie there.

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