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