Develop policy for external code in our repository

[Christopher Allan Webber]

StatusNet has both good writeup of legalcode descriptions of
external libraries:
`https://gitorious.org/statusnet/mainline/blobs/master/README#line90 <https://gitorious.org/statusnet/mainline/blobs/master/README#line90>`_

And also has a good policy for external libraries:
`https://gitorious.org/statusnet/mainline/blobs/master/extlib/README <https://gitorious.org/statusnet/mainline/blobs/master/extlib/README>`_

Evan has made clear that it's cool (even a good idea) for us to
just copy that extlib/README file and adapt it to mediagoblin, and
that's what we should do.

We should also find a nice directory to keep these all in, and just
use symlinks to move them around to appropriate places (eg,
bootstrap.py from zc.buildout can be symlinked to the toplevel of
the package, jquery can be symlinked to the mediagoblin static app
media directory).

[Will Kahn-Greene]

Putting this in the 0.0.1 target.

[Will Kahn-Greene]

I'm going to put this in the 0.0.2 milestone.

[Will Kahn-Greene]

I'm not going to get to this for 0.0.3, but this is high on my list
of things to work out for July.

[Christopher Allan Webber]

I've merged in our first "external" code, 960.gs, as part of:
`https://gitorious.org/mediagoblin/mediagoblin/commit/f7bcfafff0388d50c75c72ca8da63235e9715d93 <https://gitorious.org/mediagoblin/mediagoblin/commit/f7bcfafff0388d50c75c72ca8da63235e9715d93>`_

We should get this policy and etc in properly thusly :)

Will, let's talk about this when you get back from traveling. No
rush beforehand though!

[Will Kahn-Greene]

Tweaking the title a bit. This specifically applies to code created
by other projects that we're including in our repository and will
be shipped in our source tarball. It does not apply to code that is
in a library that gets pulled in through buildout or other
installation methods.

If I'm incorrect about this clarification, someone poke me.

[Will Kahn-Greene]

I:


1. created an extlib/ directory
2. put a big README in there based on the one from Status.net (with
   an appropriate attribution at the bottom)
3. downloaded 960.gs and put the README in extlib/960.gs/ as well
   as the files we were using
4. redid the symlinks
5. overhauled the COPYING file so that it covered things better
   with urls for the licenses if they don't happen to be in the
   distribution

I think that covers the work. It's in merge request
`#13 </issues/13>`_.

[Will Kahn-Greene]

Chris merged it in.

Marking this as closed.

[Will Kahn-Greene]

The original url for this bug was ​http://bugs.foocorp.net/issues/270 .