Forum OpenACS Development: Re: Javascript tree menu for bookmarks package

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2: Re: Javascript tree menu for bookmarks package (response to 1)
Posted by Malte Sussdorff on 06/02/04 08:45 AM
Could you contact them and ask under which conditions their software might be included in a GPLed software ?

Furthermore, if the answer is no, would you mind posting what you did to get it to work, so everyone interested could install this seperately on his /her own.

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3: Re: Javascript tree menu for bookmarks package (response to 2)
Posted by Jeff Davis on 06/02/04 10:40 AM
It's definitely not GPL compatible given the restrictions on resale. Furthermore, the low weight is due to the code being compressed and variables being shortened to 3 characters. And given that the code is compressed and the variable names are essentially meaningless changing or improving it is much more difficult than it needs to be.

Considering we are talking about something on the order of about 200 lines of javascript shouldn't we just fix what we have?

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4: Re: Javascript tree menu for bookmarks package (response to 3)
Posted by Gabriel Burca on 06/02/04 07:01 PM
The version I am using is uncompressed. I wouldn't use the compressed one since it only saves 2k over the uncompressed version and it would be a pain to modify. The uncompressed one is still half the size of the current one and much faster.

Yes, we could try fixing what we have. It was easier though to get an updated script that works and is effectively a drop-in replacement of the old one. That's because I don't know enough about the subtle differences between the browsers to figure out why it works in some but not others.

I'll see if they're willing to let us include it in OpenACS.