On Jan 17, 2009, at 2:09 PM, Harold J Hotchkiss wrote: > Just out of curiosity what's the likelihood of LJ engineers taking > some > of the DreamWidth code improvements, like a new memories system (first > one that came to mind) or integrating RSS and OpenID accounts*, and > splicing them back into the main LJ code. Not being well-versed in > the > various licenses involved I'm not even sure how legal any of that > would > be, but as an open-source layman it sounds like a reasonable thing > to be > done.
All of our improvements, even the things we develop that don't derive from LJ code we "inherited" at fork, are issued under the GPL, so LiveJournal, Inc is both permitted and welcome to use it! We encourage them to adopt anything they find useful or helpful (and I've already quietly nagged for a few of our bugfixes to be pulled upstream for things that annoy me on LJ *g*). I'm pretty sure we have a few LJ, Inc employees on our mailing lists, and we've worked to maintain good relationships with LiveJournal's engineers so that we can share information about bugfixes, security fixes, and other important information. We may be taking the code in a different direction, but we hope that we'll continue to be able to share knowledge and experience back and forth. The same goes for other sites running the LJ code. Whether they choose to switch over to running the Dreamwidth code, or choose to stick with LJ code, we hope to be able to provide tools, such as our payment system -- which doesn't ship with "out-of-the-box" LJ code from LJ, Inc; we had to write our own -- that they'll find useful and relevant and can incorporate into their site's codebase. Basically, we encourage anyone who wants to use our code to do so, contribute updates, expand upon it, etc. We build it so it can get used. :) --D -- Denise Paolucci [email protected] Dreamwidth Studios: Open Source, open expression, open operations. Coming soon! _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
