[S5-discuss] License status?

[ryan king]

On Nov 13, 2006, at 11:36 AM, David Goodger wrote:

> Hello, I'm the author of reStructuredText and the Docutils project
> lead (http://docutils.sf.net). We added S5 support to Docutils about a
> year ago and it has been very successful. A lot of people used it for
> their talks at PyCon in February. I'm glad to see S5 becoming a
> community project.
>
> Question: what is the license status of S5 now? Eric Meyer originally
> placed S5 in the public domain, but now MochiKit is being included;
> MochiKit is dual-licensed (MIT License or the Academic Free License
> v2.1 according to http://mochikit.com/doc/html/MochiKit/index.html).
> Is MochiKit now a requirement for S5 to work at all, or will S5 work
> without MochiKit?

Currently MochiKit is required.

I'll have to talk to Eric about the licensing issues. I don't want to  
create a burden on anyone wanting to contribute, but I still want to  
be able to provide the best application possible.

I'm not a lawyer and I'm not even that well versed for a open source  
developer– the complexity of which license works with which is  
overwhelming to me.

Is there anyone around who knows more about our options? What are the  
disadvantages of staying Public Domain? What other licenses provide  
us the ability to include libraries like MochiKit?

-ryan