[Building Sakai] Edia skin manager for Sakai 10 (license incompatibility)

[Mark J. Norton]

Actually, it's LGPL, which isn't nearly as restrictive as the GPL.  I 
believe Sakai is using some packages that are LGPL.

- Mark Norton

On 11/14/2013 8:29 PM, Anthony Whyte wrote:
> Edia's skin manager has been suggested for inclusion in Sakai 10.  The 
> code is licensed GPL and as such cannot be included in a Sakai 
> distribution due to it's strong copy-left provisions.  However 
> excellent the tool may be, the suggestion of inclusion is a 
> non-starter given its current license.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Anthony
>
>
> https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/edia/skin-manager/trunk/api/src/java/nl/edia/sakai/tool/skinmanager/SkinService.java
>
> /*
>   * Edia Project edia-sakai-skin-manager
>   * Copyright (C) 2007 Roland, Edia Educatie Technologie
>   *
>   * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
>   * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
>   * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
>   * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
>   *
>   * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>   * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>   * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
>   * Lesser General Public License for more details.
>   *
>   * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
>   * License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
>   * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
>   */
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> *From: *Steve Swinsburg <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>>
>> *Date: *November 14, 2013 5:38:36 PM EST
>> *To: *Mark Breuker <mbreuker at loi.nl <mailto:mbreuker at loi.nl>>
>> *Cc: *sakai-pmc at collab.sakaiproject.org 
>> <mailto:sakai-pmc at collab.sakaiproject.org>, Sakai QA 
>> <sakai-qa at collab.sakaiproject.org 
>> <mailto:sakai-qa at collab.sakaiproject.org>>, Anthony Whyte 
>> <arwhyte at umich.edu <mailto:arwhyte at umich.edu>>, Adrian Fish 
>> <adrian.r.fish at gmail.com <mailto:adrian.r.fish at gmail.com>>, 
>> "cle-release-team at collab.sakaiproject.org 
>> <mailto:cle-release-team at collab.sakaiproject.org>" 
>> <cle-release-team at collab.sakaiproject.org 
>> <mailto:cle-release-team at collab.sakaiproject.org>>, Developers 
>> Sakai-Dev <sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org 
>> <mailto:sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org>>
>> *Subject: **Re: [Building Sakai] [WG: Sakai QA] [cle-release-team] 
>> Proposal: towards a releasable trunk for Sakai 10 (and beyond)*
>>
>> Mark can you work that up into a proposal for inclusion and send it 
>> out? Include some background and maybe ask around the lists for some 
>> people that are running it in production. Then we can discuss it in a 
>> thread of its own and get it voted on.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Steve
>>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> *From: *"Berg, Alan" <A.M.Berg at uva.nl <mailto:A.M.Berg at uva.nl>>
>> *Date: *November 14, 2013 4:03:20 PM EST
>> *To: *Mark Breuker <mbreuker at loi.nl <mailto:mbreuker at loi.nl>>
>> *Cc: *Anthony Whyte <arwhyte at umich.edu <mailto:arwhyte at umich.edu>>, 
>> Adrian Fish <adrian.r.fish at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:adrian.r.fish at gmail.com>>, Sakai QA 
>> <sakai-qa at collab.sakaiproject.org 
>> <mailto:sakai-qa at collab.sakaiproject.org>>, 
>> "sakai-pmc at collab.sakaiproject.org 
>> <mailto:sakai-pmc at collab.sakaiproject.org>" 
>> <sakai-pmc at collab.sakaiproject.org 
>> <mailto:sakai-pmc at collab.sakaiproject.org>>, Developers Sakai-Dev 
>> <sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org 
>> <mailto:sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org>>, 
>> "cle-release-team at collab.sakaiproject.org 
>> <mailto:cle-release-team at collab.sakaiproject.org>" 
>> <cle-release-team at collab.sakaiproject.org 
>> <mailto:cle-release-team at collab.sakaiproject.org>>
>> *Subject: **Re: [sakai-pmc] [Building Sakai] [WG: Sakai QA] 
>> [cle-release-team] Proposal: towards a releasable trunk for Sakai 10 
>> (and beyond)*
>>
>> Another excellent EDIA tool, used by many institutions.
>> Don't mind QAing if it gets included
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> *From: *Mark Breuker <mbreuker at loi.nl <mailto:mbreuker at loi.nl>>
>> *Date: *November 14, 2013 3:43:29 PM EST
>> *To: *'Anthony Whyte' <arwhyte at umich.edu <mailto:arwhyte at umich.edu>>, 
>> Adrian Fish <adrian.r.fish at gmail.com <mailto:adrian.r.fish at gmail.com>>
>> *Cc: *Sakai QA <sakai-qa at collab.sakaiproject.org 
>> <mailto:sakai-qa at collab.sakaiproject.org>>, 
>> "sakai-pmc at collab.sakaiproject.org 
>> <mailto:sakai-pmc at collab.sakaiproject.org>" 
>> <sakai-pmc at collab.sakaiproject.org 
>> <mailto:sakai-pmc at collab.sakaiproject.org>>, Developers Sakai-Dev 
>> <sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org 
>> <mailto:sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org>>, 
>> "cle-release-team at collab.sakaiproject.org 
>> <mailto:cle-release-team at collab.sakaiproject.org>" 
>> <cle-release-team at collab.sakaiproject.org 
>> <mailto:cle-release-team at collab.sakaiproject.org>>
>> *Subject: **RE: [Building Sakai] [WG: Sakai QA] [cle-release-team] 
>> Proposal: towards a releasable trunk for Sakai 10 (and beyond)*
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> May I suggest to include the Skin Manager tool in the main 
>> distribution? It has been around for quite some time and makes it 
>> much easier to deploy new skins into a running Sakai instance.
>>
>> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/SM/Home
>>
>> Also I think there are quite some institutions running this tool 
>> although I don't have any hard evidence. Perhaps people using it can 
>> reply to this message ("Say aaai!" :).
>>
>> The latest version is compatible with Sakai 2.9.x I would be willing 
>> to put some effort in making it compatible with Sakai 10.
>>
>> BTW: what are the criteria for inclusion?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Mark
>
> anthony whyte | its and mlibrary | university of michigan | 
> arwhyte at umich.edu <mailto:arwhyte at umich.edu> | 517-980-0228
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