Is your boss a dev? Did he think you straight copy/pasted from the internet? Did he even ask about the licensing?
Your boss sounds incompetent, but these answers would probably help us understand.
Your boss sounds incompetent, but these answers would probably help us understand.
He also told me that "inner JavaScript classes" are inappropriate for enterprise code. I asked him to explain what he was talking about - he meant my object constructors. He said I could not create new java (yes, java) classes in my JavaScript code. ????
If you can: be diplomatic, take him out for drinks after work one day and have a heart-to-heart. He wields a significant amount of power, and it'd be in your best interest for him to like you alot.
Word substitute accordingly. There's a reason it's a bad idea for candidates to bad-mouth their current employer, and it's the reverse of this situation.
I'd guess that he and the product do not tend to use javascript objects when writing code - which means that the code was above his (and the product's average) coding head. This also means that it wasn't the best way for you to code the project.
For a code review to pass, the reviewer should think about the minimum person working on the project and whether they would understand or make guesses when fixing it - or at least know where / when to get help.