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It's unclear to me they had the right with left-pad. https://github.com/azer/left-pad https://github.com/azer/left-pad has no license file, and the license in
by LamaOfRuin 11y ago
It's unclear to me they had the right with left-pad.
https://github.com/azer/left-pad https://github.com/azer/left-pad has no license file, and the license in package.json is meaningless. I can interpret it as referring to anything I want with the same acronym.
I agree that the spirit from the author seems to have been to allow this re-publishing, and I don't really think npm did anything wrong by doing so, but that's not generally applicable in the way their new policy is. I think their lawyers should have a serious problem with this new policy.
- steveklabnik 11y agoI'm not 100% sure if there's ever been rulings about metadata vs in-tree, but agree having it in-tree as well would be helpful. npm's lawyers were intimately involved in this new policy, so I can assure you they don't have a problem with it.
- LamaOfRuin 11y agohmm, I mean, I guess there's no harm having it be stated policy. There are any number of hypothetical situations where I'd expect their lawyers to advise them not to follow that policy when faced with the threat of litigation.
- pfooti 11y agoThe license in package.json seems to refer to http://www.wtfpl.net/ http://www.wtfpl.net/