-1 on allowing code that is incompatible with Habari's license into habari-extras
Let me say up front that -extras is not, in its current form, ideal. I'd add to that the notion that a community-blessed plugins directory/ distribution site is needed ASAP. To my understanding -extras is not meant to be a central storage and distribution site for the majority of Habari plugins; it just happens to be the largest collection of them (and /dist being the best place to get plugins that run on versions newer than release). It's a great place to store plugin code - I've added my own there for many reasons, not the least of which is that if I drop the ball on a bug or necessary update, it's more than likely that somebody else will update and commit, and more people would see it there than on my site. But I digress. In its address is 'habariproject.org' and that, to a quick glance, makes it appear to be official Habari code and as such would be subject to the Habari license (and its associated compatibilities and whatnot). Again, this is purely at a quick glance and I'm sure there are lots of counter examples, but I think that a project's license should extend to all parts of it. I'm not saying people can't code with whatever license they want to use, I'm just saying that if they want said code to appear on -extras, they should follow the established guidelines. Otherwise they can use other repositories and storage, as many people already do. My understanding of licenses is less than complete, and my opinion of the GPL for themers and plugin developers is less than positive, but I'm not voting against the GPL or any version of it. I'm voting against compromising the licensing of Habari, and/or giving the appearance of compromising it. So what next? We need a directory/distribution site for themes and plugins of all licenses. That could be part of hp.o, but it doesn't have to be. It just needs to exist. A license-blind third party repository would be great, too. But let's hold -extras up to the same standards as the rest of the code you can get from svn.habariproject.org (and having said that, I need to add some documentation to my plugins if somebody else hasn't yet). -mikelietz --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
