Licensing of Mongoose

[Martin Popelak]

Hi,

according to https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mongoose-users/aafbOnHonkI the Mongoose library, one of dependencies of PhantomJS, the licensing terms has changed from MIT to GPL. 

I understand that PhantomJS is using version 3.1 which is actually licensed under MIT but what is the plan for upgrading ? Is the roadmap of PhantomJS to remain non GPL component because for me it will leads to necessity of removal of PhantomJS?

I have issued a pull request to fix the misleading link in third-party.txt which is leading to the current GPL license. http://www.bustedtees.com/reunitepangea 

Maybe you should consider to change the link to the project as well as the project now offers only versions 3.2 and higher to be downloaded.

[Martin Popelak]

What I was trying to say that if the PhantomJS would ever consider to use a GPL external library I would need to remove the PhantomJS

M

Dne středa, 4. prosince 2013 14:17:23 UTC+1 Martin Popelak napsal(a):

[Darren Cook]

> to https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mongoose-users/aafbOnHonkI the
> Mongoose library, one of dependencies of PhantomJS, the licensing terms has
> changed from MIT to GPL.

Nasty. Luckily they can only apply the new license to new versions, so
the last release pre-Aug-2013 can still be considered MIT.

Is Mongoose just providing the web server functionality of PhantomJS? If
so, hopefully the version currently being used will continue to work
until a liberal-license alternative can be found. Or the pre-Aug-2013
Mongoose (v3.8) could be branched, and run as an independent project.

Darren

[James Greene]

Yes, Mongoose is just for the web server module (which also facilitates GhostDriver, though).

Ivan had expressed interest in switching it to something else... I think it was this: https://github.com/nikhilm/qhttpserver

Sincerely,
    James Greene
    Sent from my [smart?]phone

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