Tickets :: Comment on [#11870] JsMin is non-free ("The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil")

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Comment	>> "The restriction >> might be unenforcible, but we cannot presume that. Thus, the license >> is nonfree." > > This is laughable. The MIT License might contain restrictions for > all I know. There is nothing preventing someone from trying to sue > under that license. And if your response is "Yeah, someone could sue > but the case would be thrown out because of the license terms" my > response would be "Exactly - thanks for making my point". > > Just because some group says it is a "free" license, doesn't mean > s***. It is up to any individual/company to make this decision on > their own. > > For the record: there are WAY more legal ramifications for using > software with the GPL (or LGPL) license than there is for using > software with a license term of "do good, not evil", regardless of > whether the former is labeled "free" and the latter is labeled > "non-free". Just saying. > >> You don't need to make a new package. What is the impact of simply >> removing the file? replacing it with a void class? > > There is minimal impact. If that file/class is not available, the > compression code will attempt to run, the factory will throw an > exception, and the exception will be caught/ignored and the JS output > as-is. So there is a slight run-time penalty if the php jsmin > configuration option is used, but I am OK with that. > >> What if I propose >> a fallback mode using php-packer? > > We already have fallback javascript minifiers. And we absolutely > don't need to maintain another PHP-based solution, since we already > have one that works perfectly fine.
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