[FALCON-727] JQuery license is incorrectly mentioned in the header file

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.5, 0.6
• Fix Version/s: 0.5, 0.6
• Component/s: license
• Assignee: Srikanth Sundarrajan
• Reporter: Srikanth Sundarrajan
• Created: 15/Sep/14 05:39
• Updated: 15/Sep/14 07:35
• Resolved: 15/Sep/14 07:35

Description

jmclean has highlighted a licensing error in the falcon 0.5 release, where jquery's license is incorrectly mentioned as APL 2.0

On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Justin Mclean <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Sorry but it's -1 (binding) from me.  Everything is good except that the jQuery has had an Apache license header added to it.  (in ./html5-ui/js/jquery-1.11.0.min.js) If other incubator members think this isn't a blocker I'll change my vote.
>
> jQuery is MIT licensed [1] so should be treated the same as the other bundled MIT bits and put in LICENSE. (If the license could be changed to Apache then this would needed to have been mentioned in NOTICE.)
 
> Minor issues you may want to fix for the next release.
> - License has:
>   This product bundles dust-helpers 1.2.0, which is available under a
>   MIT license. For details, see docs/license/dust-LICENSE.txt
>
>  Which should be this:
>   This product bundles dust-helpers 1.2.0, which is available under a
>   MIT license. For details, see docs/license/dust-helpers-LICENSE.txt

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