Posted by jlboht on December 1, 2009 at 6:58pm
The module page for OpenPublish states: Because of the inclusion of some 3rd party libraries, we need to host this off of drupal.org, you can download it here.
What libraries are causing this licensing issue?
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Great Question
Thank you for this question and sorry for a belated answer.
OpenPublish includes several third-party libraries (JavaScript and PHP) that are not hosted on drupal.org. Currently the list consists of:
FCKEditor - Javascript WYSIWYG editor. Triple-license: GPL, LGPL and MPL
SimplePie - Fast RSS/Atom parser. BSD License
ARC - RDF library. Dual license: W3C Software License and, since 2009, also under the GPL
All of these libraries are open-source and compatible with GPL, which Drupal is licensed under. However, drupal.org's contributed project hosting rules, currently prohibit including any third-party libraries. Not because most of them would violate any licenses, but just to be on the safe side, since it is, indeed, a huge community and you never know.
This is one of the major reasons why packaged openpublish's download is offered off-site. We don't want people to have to download OpenPublish and then have to go and download three other things and put in specific places.
There's a strong movement in the Drupal community to resolve the issue with third-party library inclusion, so we will see where that takes us.
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