[TYPO3-core] Big problem: rtehtmlarea doesn't work in Beta1

[Michael Stucki]

There was no reply to Stanislas' posting.
Please, Dmitry and Martin: Do you still have any doubts about rtehtmlarea?

Regards, michael

Stanislas Rolland wrote:

> Hi Dmitry and Core team members,
> 
>>And lawyers should review this particular license, not the original BSD
>>license.
>>
> The htmlArea RTE extension embeds into TYPO3 software originally
> published under so-called "modified BSD" license.
> For an overview of the "modified BSD" license, see
> http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/modbsd.xml and/or
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_License
> See the htmlArea License here:
>
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/typo3/TYPO3core/typo3/sysext/rtehtmlarea/htmlarea/Attic/HTMLAREA_LICENSE.txt?rev=1.1.2.1&only_with_tag=TYPO3_4-0&view=markup
> 
> It is the position of the Free Software Foundation that "modified BSD"
> is compatible with GPL. See:
> http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/index_html
> This is because the "modified BSD" license is very permissive. Software
> published under the "modified BSD" may be re-used in proprietary
> software as well as in software distributed under the GPL. The reverse
> is not true: software released under GPL cannot be re-distributed under
> a "modified BSD" license.
> 
> Regarding the no-endorsement clause, see:
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/Licensing-HOWTO.html#compatibility. The clause
> does not restrict any right granted by GPL.
> 
> The modified htmlArea scripts included in the htmlArea RTE extension may
> thus be published under GPL. This also implies that the modified scripts
> included in the extension may be re-distributed only under GPL.
> 
> I have modified the license notices included in each script of the
> extension accordingly. In the case of modified scripts originally
> released under the "modified BSD" license, I added to the standard TYPO3
> notice, a reference to the original license:
> 
> *  This script is a modified version of a script published under the
> htmlArea License.
> *  A copy of the htmlArea License may be found in the textfile
> HTMLAREA_LICENSE.txt.
> 
> If anyone sees any counter-indication to this approach, please let us
> know.
> 
> Best regards,
> Stanislas

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