On Wednesday, July 22, 2015 at 2:58:06 PM UTC-7, Jed Carty wrote: > > ...Because it is a single file everything in the wiki is part of the > code... > ...anything contained in a tiddlywiki is part of the source code and > therefore subject to this license...
...none of the licenses fit this situation because they consider the source > code for each library or application as a collection of distinct entities, > not a monolithic entity that contains distinct modules that can each be > subject to their own license independent of the container. Despite your well-stated argument, I think you have unnecessarily conflated "file" and "code" to be synonymous (at least, for the purposes of this discussion) While it is true that most conventional applications use separate files to isolate the code from the content, the *container* used to distribute the code should not be construed the only way to define what is or is not code. Note how the BSD license language itself addresses "redistribution and use in source and binary forms" without regard to the the method of distribution. The problem for TiddlyWiki is that it code and content are included in the same distribution package (a single HTML file), and this makes the *conventional* distinction between code and content ambiguous. However, this doesn't preclude providing other means to clearly identify what parts of the package are code and which are content. We only need to limit the TiddlyWiki BSD license to the clearly identifiable TWCore components of the distribution package in order to allow the remainder of the file contents to have whatever license is desired. For example, all TWCore tiddlers could have "license" field that points to a BSD license statement that included with the document as a shadow tiddler. Any other (non-TWCore) tiddlers could then be subject to whatever terms and conditions that are specifically included within or referenced by those individual tiddlers. Note that both US Copyright law and the Berne Convention on International Copyright provide that copyrights do not have to be registered (or even declared) to be enforceable and that copyright automatically goes to the creator/author of the materials, unless otherwise explicitly granted, in writing, to another entity. In other words, to paraphrase a famous quote from ZeroWing.... "ALL YOUR TIDDLERS ARE BELONG TO YOU!" -e -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/385e909a-684d-4e26-b542-4dd2011ddc10%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
