[Xerte-dev] Re: IP Clearance

Thu Sep 25 11:11:49 BST 2014

Hope you feel better soon John :)

The WP functionality should be too hard to replicate though?

I assume that the code clearance will tie to a new version / assume there
is a target date?

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Smith, John <J.J.Smith at gcu.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Sorry not been very active on here recently... Had my appendix removed on
> Friday after a few grumbling weeks but on the mend...
>
> Re this code, that whole file is lifted from Wordpress so if we can't
> include any GPL  then it should be removed. There are numerous hook points
> throughout the PHP though that will have to be dealt with although it would
> be good to keep them and just test for the availability of the relevant
> function...
>
> Although plugins have never really got past the theory stage, one area
> they have been useful for me has been debugging on a live system - I've
> always had a bit of an issue that we have to turn development mode on which
> causes problems on a live system but you can quickly create a plugin which
> either turns development mode on ONLY for a specific template id(s) or does
> stuff only on the LOs that you want it to... It can probably be used for a
> lot of stuff that we haven't thought of yet too, especially when we come to
> rewrite the workspace...
>
> It would be relatively trivial to rewrite that file as it is just a
> pub/sub handler...
>
> I'm not that fussed either way though... If its easier to just rip out all
> the code then feel free...
>
> Regards
>
> John Smith
> Learning Technologist
> School of Health and Life Sciences
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>
>
> "Pat L (pgogy)" <xerte at pgogywebstuff.com> wrote:
>
>
> I think large parts are copied from WordPress, he mentioned it in an email
> - so searching the archive would say
>
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Julian Tenney <
> Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>>
> wrote:
> Did John write the code?
>
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of Pat L (pgogy)
> Sent: 24 September 2014 16:52
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> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: IP Clearance
>
> No, John added it in to duplicate the way WordPress does plugins,
> WordPress Plugin code completely separate
>
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Tom Reijnders <reijnders at tor.nl<mailto:
> reijnders at tor.nl>> wrote:
> Pat should have the answer to that, and also whther we want to keep on
> supporting that. I assume it's introduced when he cerated the Wordpress
> plugin.
>
> Tom
> Julian Tenney schreef op 24-9-2014 15:25:
> I can’t find a license in wp_plugins.php?
>
> Did it come from wordpress? Wordpress is itself GPL, so presumably that’s
> what wp_plugins is.
>
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tom Reijnders
> Sent: 24 September 2014 12:16
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: IP Clearance
>
> And wp_plugins.php
> Julian Tenney schreef op 24-9-2014 12:59:
> Guys,
>
> I have started going through all the folders looking for licensing issues:
> basically I’ve got a list of them, and am trying to identify whether each
> folder is problematic or not.
>
> I’ll have further questions, but for now I’m just trying to tick off the
> easy ones.
>
> Do you know if all the php / js in \website_code was written by us, mostly
> Pat I guess? Looking through, it all looks OK, just want to be sure here’s
> nothing lurking in there from 3rd parties. It would be a good folder to
> tick off.
>
> Just for future reference if you’re thinking of integrating anything into
> the software,  and I think you all know this already, but we absolutely
> have to avoid any GPL / LGPL code. Happily, all the components / frameworks
> / fonts / etc in \modules are all licensed compatibly.
>
> J
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