On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Ryan Kaldari <rkald...@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> I license all of my MediaWiki extensions under an MIT license since I want
> people to be able to reuse the JS code on-wiki, but some people have
> claimed that even MIT isn't compatible with CC-BY-SA [1]. I've been
> thinking about switching to CC-Zero instead. It's funny how most "free
> software" is so burdened with inane incompatible restrictions that we can't
> legally use it in many situations. What do people think about using CC-Zero
> as a license? Now that's free software!


I'm not sure that's true at all. The MIT license is pretty much a proper
subset of CC-BY-SA, i.e., it has less restrictions and the restrictions it
has are in CC-BY-SA anyway. People are lying to you. ;)

*--*
*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015
Major in Computer Science
www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com
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