The csstidy_python bits included with django-compress are GPL.
It's not obvious at all that GPL code is included. This puts anyone who uses django-compress in danger of violating the GPL without realizing it. Kinda freaked me out when I saw it.

This also puts django-compress itself in danger of violating the GPL since it is not licensed under GPL.

The easiest way to deal with this is to remove the csstidy_python filter from the project and put it in it's own GPL'd repo. so people can use it alongside django-compress if they want. But they'll know they are entering GPL land explicitly.

http://github.com/pelme/django-compress/blob/6f400b9f26fde8308345099287f213826805d1e7/compress/filters/csstidy_python/csstidy.py

The source code and wiki pages needs to be cleaned up for django-compress. For the newcomer, it's impossible to tell what's going on. I propose:

1. Ask each of the fork maintainers to either make their fork ready for pulling back into the repository (Whichever that one is) or delete their fork or just let people know that their fork is just for experimentation and not for public use. http://github.com/Amli/django-compress/network
2. Move all the documentation from Google code to here.
3. Put a link on Google code directing users to the correct Github repository.
4. Straighten out the multiple django-compress projects on PyPI and put the best one up there.

Cheers.

I added script containg comment such as:

/*******************************************************************************
jquery.mb.components
Copyright (c) 2001-2010. Matteo Bicocchi (Pupunzi); Open lab srl, Firenze - Italy
email: [email protected]
site: http://pupunzi.com

Licences: MIT, GPL
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
******************************************************************************/

The output contains partial comment:

jquery.mb.components
Copyright(c)2001-2010.Matteo Bicocchi(Pupunzi);Open lab srl,Firenze-Italy
email:[email protected]
site:http:Licences:MIT,GPL
http:http:******************************************************************************/

I tested version checkouted from git

6f400b9
master HEAD as of 2009-12-14

Using OS X 10.4, python 2.6

I suppose this is a bug. Shouldn't comments be removed completely?

Please stick a version number of your code.

For a source with only external urls, synccompress raises a keyerror here:
u, version = needs_update(js['output_filename'],
js['source_filenames'])

Wrapping with try/except fixes this
try:
u, version = needs_update(js['output_filename'],
js['source_filenames'])
except KeyError:
print('JavaScript Group '%s' could not be compressed (does it only have external URLs?)' % name)
continue