Re: Artistic-2.0 derivative - npm License


Till Jaeger
 

Am 02.05.22 um 13:43 schrieb Philippe Ombredanne:
Hi Till:
You have eagle eyes!
On Mon, May 2, 2022 at 10:46 AM Till Jaeger via lists.spdx.org
<jaeger=jbb.de@...> wrote:
I noticed that NPM is using an Artistic-2.0 with additional terms and
conditions:
This is IMHO a total and complete mess and non-sense, eventually non
FOSS at all.
Anyone from Microsoft or GitHub to fix this monstrosity?
Till:
Do you know when this showed up?
I stumbled across this rather by accident because I was looking for information on why NPM uses Artistic-2.0.

Internet Archive does not provide much help:
https://web.archive.org/web/20220315191342/https://docs.npmjs.com/policies/npm-license

Best,
Till


NB: I am adding a rule to ScanCode Toolkit to report this ASAP.
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Cordially
Philippe

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