Tinymce violation of license term: source is only available as concatenation and not as prefered form of modification

[broucari]

Priority higgest and severity blocker because it is a license problem

Hi,

Tinymce is distribued under the LGPL and thus you should redistribute source as prefered form of modification.

You only redistribute the source as concatenation of source file ​http://code.svn.wordpress.org/wordpress-sources/tinymce/

First line read:
FILE IS GENERATED BY COMBINING THE SOURCES IN THE "classes" DIRECTORY SO DON'T MODIFY THIS FILE DIRECTLY

It is not the prefered form of modification so it is a license violation.

Please check other LGPL/GPL modules for this kind of problems

Related to: ​https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=744709
Already opened as: ​https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2192

[nacin]

This file is taken directly from TinyMCE's production release: ​http://download.moxiecode.com/tinymce/tinymce_3.5.8.zip. How they choose to build it up to that point is not our concern.

[broucari]

It is your problem. As upstream they have right to distribute binary version, but as downstream you should answer to written offer to get source. So it is your concern.

Bastien

[DrewAPicture]

Couldn't decide whether TinyMCE or External Libraries component was more appropriate.

[iseulde]

Severity in Debian report set to minor, so changing here accordingly.

[iseulde]

Related: #27739 and [28081].

[scott.gonzalez]

GPL (and therefore LGPL) allows distribution of only object code so long as you make the source code available. One such method is by providing "access to copy the Corresponding Source from a network server at no charge." Providing a link to the source code, either in the minified file or in the tinymce directory should be enough, even if the link points upstream.

[wonderboymusic]

see comment:10 by @scott.gonzalez