And apparently Oracle slaps "ORACLE PROPRIETARY/CONFIDENTIAL" on everything.

That is probably the only interesting part of this story.

If it didn't no licensing terms would be applicable and it would be called Public Domain.

Proprietary Software as coined by the FSF is merely a language abuse.

It's as if just because it's BSD we are talking about, you can break those 3 conditions at will. Not surprising actually, since some Linux kernel devs have also been doing it.

As far as license violations are concerned, this is not a problem solely limited to the BSD as there are oh so many cases for the GPL as well for example.

In my experience, I'm much more keen to include a notice about the folk who wrote that piece of software than complying with the GPL (although I always do). For example, let's say you want to strip down an ERP web-client so that mobile devices can actually use it. That's a quick and dirty 1 hour patch to render the software minimal. If the software is under the GPL, you must publish your changes. Knowing that your dirty patch will be obsolete in a 2 weeks time and that nobody will ever actually look for it.

Well, I'm all for freedom.

That must mean that Tim Berners-Lee, djb, aaronsw and plenty of other good devs are insane. See the list of public domain software and how to handle the 'unlicense license' here:

http://unlicense.org/

(public domain makes a lot of sense and I am considering it for my next project. atm my pref is 3-clause BSD simply for attribution and the no ad policy.)

D. Richard Hipp and everyone who has ever contributed to SQLite are insane, in your opinion?

The public domain isn't a terrible choice when thinking about how and if to license your software, and is arguably the only incontestably ethical choice.

I should have made clear that by 'sane' I meant anybody who cared about the responsibility that comes with intellectual property. Can't find the reference, it turns out that by releasing something in the public domain you give way for prosecution in case of bugs and other nasty use of your software.

This is only true if you distribute a binary of the patched code. If your patching on the server side there is no requirement to publish your patch (hence why the Affero GPL was invented, it closes this loophole).

But you're actually totally right.

There's an interesting lawsuit (still ongoing AFAIK) involving Free, a French DSL provider. They distribute a router (those are referred to as Box in marketing terms in France) with interesting features and based on Linux. They also include many other FOSS.

It turns out they modified parts of those software (I have no idea which exactly) and are being prosecuted based on the fact that their devices, distributed to customers, include those modifications. They argue that they lend the Boxes to customers but those remain their property.

While arguing about the lawsuit with a fellow, I realized he had no idea about what the GPL actually contained.

Even respected people in the technology world don't recognize that the GPL is not a use license.

Oracle are not very nice when it comes to Java licensing. Just ask Apache.

From the comments in the reference:

* deployJava.js

*

* This file is part of the Deployment Toolkit. It provides functions for web

* pages to detect the presence of a JRE, install the latest JRE, and easily run

* applets or Web Start programs.

i e Sun/Oracle own the code Facebook is using.

    This file is part of the Deployment Toolkit.  It provides functions for web
    pages to detect the presence of a JRE, install the latest JRE, and easily run
    applets or Web Start programs.

It is also clearly a file that is supposed to be used outside of Oracle, the following comment states (at http://www.java.com/js/deployJava.txt): "You are encouraged to link directly to the live copies."

The real question is why it appears twice after being packaged.

"This file is part of the Deployment Toolkit. It provides functions for web pages to detect the presence of a JRE, install the latest JRE, and easily run applets or Web Start programs."

  /**
  * Adding a single line to this file requires great internal reflection
  * and thought. You must ask yourself if your one line addition is so
  * important, so critical to the success of the company, that it warrants
  * a slowdown for every user on every page load. Adding a single letter
  * here could cost thousands of man hours around the world.
  *
  * That is all.
  */

Or is this it? I didn't see the comment.

http://www.javelinjs.com/

(edit) Looks like Facebook is using the Java RIA framework, http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/jw...

If on Chrome, check out the prettyprint extension, which uses the same jsbeautifier code to do it auto for ya. https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/nipdlgebaanapcph...

It lets you pick multiple pictures from a directory on your hard drive, rotate them if you need to, and then I believe it does some compression before finally loading them up

I hope we see some more karmic justice and Google rips Oracle a new one.

And btw the Oracle snippet is there referencing Java, not javascript.