On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Gary Mort <[email protected]> wrote: > Just a personal vent, I hate the new policy of the extensions directory. > > I wrote a short little plugin and decided since the number of lines of code > were soooo small, the proper license for it was "Public Domain". I had to > "wrap" my public domain plugin in a GPL license to publish it there. > > While I understand the desire to remove the commercial and other Open Source > licenses from the directory, the pure GPL policy is annoying.
Amen, brother! That's one of the things I said when I heard about the new direction the JED was taking. FIRST, excluding GPL-incompatible extensions simply prods the community to come up with their own JED that is useful to everyone, not just a select group; and SECOND, by requiring GPL-only, the project shut their eyes and plugged their ears to many, many other FOSS licenses that are totally compatible with the GPL. -- Mitch _______________________________________________ New York PHP SIG: Joomla! Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
