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

[Anthony Whyte]

Right Mark, thanks for the clarification.  I missed the "lesser" in the license.

anthony whyte | its and mlibrary | university of michigan | arwhyte at umich.edu | 517-980-0228


On Nov 14, 2013, at 8:49 PM, Mark J. Norton wrote:

> 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>
>>> Date: November 14, 2013 5:38:36 PM EST
>>> To: Mark Breuker <mbreuker at loi.nl>
>>> Cc: sakai-pmc at collab.sakaiproject.org, Sakai QA <sakai-qa at collab.sakaiproject.org>, Anthony Whyte <arwhyte at umich.edu>, Adrian Fish <adrian.r.fish at gmail.com>, "cle-release-team at collab.sakaiproject.org" <cle-release-team at collab.sakaiproject.org>, Developers Sakai-Dev <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>
>>> Date: November 14, 2013 4:03:20 PM EST
>>> To: Mark Breuker <mbreuker at loi.nl>
>>> Cc: Anthony Whyte <arwhyte at umich.edu>, Adrian Fish <adrian.r.fish at gmail.com>, Sakai QA <sakai-qa at collab.sakaiproject.org>, "sakai-pmc at collab.sakaiproject.org" <sakai-pmc at collab.sakaiproject.org>, Developers Sakai-Dev <sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org>, "cle-release-team at collab.sakaiproject.org" <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>
>>> Date: November 14, 2013 3:43:29 PM EST
>>> To: 'Anthony Whyte' <arwhyte at umich.edu>, Adrian Fish <adrian.r.fish at gmail.com>
>>> Cc: Sakai QA <sakai-qa at collab.sakaiproject.org>, "sakai-pmc at collab.sakaiproject.org" <sakai-pmc at collab.sakaiproject.org>, Developers Sakai-Dev <sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org>, "cle-release-team at collab.sakaiproject.org" <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 | 517-980-0228
>> 
>> 
>> 
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