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List:       wikitech-l
Subject:    Re: [Wikitech-l] Possible license issues in MediaWiki source code
From:       Tim Starling <tstarling () wikimedia ! org>
Date:       2009-03-29 4:39:49
Message-ID: gqmu2m$up2$1 () ger ! gmane ! org
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Aryeh Gregor wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Tim Starling <tstarling@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>> The GPL, being by far the most restrictive free license, seems to be
>> for people who have reservations about giving their code away. The GPL
>> seeks to maintain a sense of ownership and control, by restricting
>> many kinds of derivative reuse and by mandating attribution. I'm not
>> going to be bullied into making it my preferred license for new code.
> 
> Well, it would be nice if you at least specified the license.
> ImageMap, for instance, has no license specified at all.  Presumably
> it's intended to be licensed under something that's at least
> GPL-compatible, but it's not clear what.  This is problematic given
> that other people have modified it, and how they intended to license
> their contributions isn't necessarily clear if there's no license
> anywhere in the text of the code.  I can't see any good reason to not
> specify a license.

I haven't yet found a license that I like enough to support in that
way. Here's a statement of my position on licenses:

<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Tim_Starling#Source_code_license>

-- Tim Starling


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