License Question

[mysticatea]

I'd like to ask Acorn team about the license of stage-3 plugins.

Context:

We have a discussion whether we add supports stage-3 syntactic features to ESLint or not: eslint/eslint#9804
In the discussion, I mentioned acornjs org and official stage-3 plugins.
However, we don't seem to be able to use those because of license compatibility.

Question:

Is there a possibility to consider those license to change to the same as acorn core?
I'm sorry if I offended you.

Thank you.

[TimothyGu]

CC @adrianheine

While I understand AGPL's uses, I second the request to change the official plugins to a license compatible with MIT which Acorn itself uses, like MIT.

[adrianheine]

This is a reasonable request and I was expecting it to come up. As a side-note, I don't consider the plugins to be official, and as far as I know the (other) acorn maintainers neither endorsed nor reviewed them. However, they are under the acornjs organization, so they are not ›just some plugins‹, either.

As for the license, I default to AGPL and figured I could switch once the need arises. I would prefer APL over MIT, but it probably makes sense to just follow acorn itself and use MIT.

[TimothyGu]

@adrianheine Ping.

[adrianheine]

@TimothyGu As I added to all of the plugin's READMEs in the meantime: if the license of one of them is a problem for your use-case, please open an issue with the specific plugin describing your use-case. My understanding is that eslint is not actually interested in them currently.