CC-BY-SA/GFDL is in the same spirit as GPL, which is an obviously
acceptable license for WMF (since MediaWiki is written in it).
Can you explain the need to relicense it under MIT?
2013/9/26 Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.org
Forwarding, with permission.
For background the AFC Helper script is one that assists English
Wikipedians reviewing pages in the Articles for Creation queue, which
currently is severely backlogged.
Any thoughts on the licensing issue, from folks with experience on the
question of gadget/userscript licensing?
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From: Mr. Donald J. Fortier II technical...@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 8:30 PM
Subject: afch licensing question
To: swall...@wikimedia.org swall...@wikimedia.org
Per the discussion on https://github.com/WPAFC/afch/issues/61 one of the
previous contributors to the project refuses to agree to relicense AFCH
under the MIT license. Right now, the script is licensed under
CC-BY-SA/GFDL, as it was originally coded on-wiki (per
[[Wikipedia:Copyright]] -- all text-based contributions). This came about
due to some confusion that can be seen
https://github.com/WPAFC/afch/issues/60. So, we are unsure as to where to
go from here. If we replace any code contributed to the project by the
person that refuses to agree, can we dissolve any requirements to get him
to agree? Is there enough contribution from him to actually worry about it
as he hasn't actually written any functions, just converted some stuff from
old school JavaScript to jQuery? Any advice/assistance on this would be
appreciated.
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