On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 15:55 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Do the pieces of software (the javascript on the
> client in this case) have an open source license?
Sorry to arrive late to this discussion.
The Omniture JS code used to be on fedora.redhat.com, and it was
docs.fedoraproject.org for a while. Mike McGrath (iirc) and I were
discussing its existence one day when we noticed docs.fp.o was loading
slowly due to the Omniture calls. So, that was one mark against the
service in general -- it presented another point of failure on release
days, which are ironically the days we'd want the most traffic analysis
for.
The reason I decided to yank the code is clear -- it is not-FLOSS and we
have no rights to use or distribute it as part of Fedora Project web
properties.
Here is a sample of the Omniture JS from redhatmagazine.com:
<!-- SiteCatalyst code version: H.1.
Copyright 1997-2005 Omniture, Inc. More info available at
http://www.omniture.com sec -->
<div id="oTags">
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
var s_account = "redhatcom";
-->
</script>
<script language="JavaScript" src="/js/s_code.js"></script>
<script language="JavaScript" src="http://www.redhat.com/j/rh_omni_footer.js";></script>
<script language="JavaScript"><!--
if(navigator.appVersion.indexOf('MSIE')>=0)document.write(unescape('%3C')+'\!-'+'-')
//--></script><noscript><img
src="https://smtrcs.redhat.com/b/ss/redhatcom/1/H.2--NS/0";
height="1" width="1" border="0" alt="" /></noscript><!--/DO NOT REMOVE/-->
</div><!-- oTags -->
<!-- End SiteCatalyst code version: H.1. -->
The code only has a copyright notice and no FLOSS license.
As Toshio states later in this email, that is the #1 blocker. I
consider the "added point of failure" #2, because of historical problems
with Omniture that I'm not convinced are just history.
So Jesse -- if you can find out if Omniture can or will license that
code under an OSI approved license, then we'll actually have something
to discuss. Otherwise, it is a ForbiddenItem.
- Karsten
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