On 5 March 2013 22:08, Tyler Romeo <tylerro...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. ;) People will say any spurious bollocks in a licence discussion. (You've been on Commons, right?) This is why we have proper lawyers on hand :-) I appreciate it would be *nice* to put the licence in the JS, Mako makes the point as nicely in the bug as the original poster didn't in this thread. But there must be a method that isn't operationally insane. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
