Chris J. Davis wrote:

> What is the purpose of -extras?
> 
> If its purpose is to be the premiere place for plugins, themes and 
> classes from the Habari community, for the Habari community, then we 
> need to only have one license restriction:
> 
> A recognized FOSS license.
> 
> If this is to be a place as Owen put it:
> 
> 1) Serve as a place to develop plugins and themes with public 
> participation to sound out whether either a contribution or a developer 
> is worthy of promotion to core or PMC, respectively.
> 
> 2) Allow developers interested in contributing to Habari to house their 
> code and issue tracking at no cost to them.
> 
> Then we should be requiring all code submitted to it to be licensed 
> under the ASL.

> So, since it seems we have a difference of opinion on what -extras is, I 
> call for a vote on the purpose of -extras. After we determine what it 
> should be, we can clarify any license statements.
> 
> So, I vote +1 for -extras being a repo that houses any 
> plugin/class/theme that is built for Habari regardless of license. In 
> our intro to -extras we explain the benefits of licensing your work 
> under the ASL (possible inclusion in core, etc) but in no way mandate it.
> 
> I call for 48 hours of voting on this subject from now, December 3rd, 
> 10:01 CDT.

I don't want to risk tainting the AL2 code with GPL fragments, and I 
think that risk increases the closer together we bring differently 
licensed source code. There might also be license technicalities like "I 
can checkout the whole -extras repo, so you distribute code under the 
GPL, so it all has to be GPL". I believe our repositories should house 
only Apache 2.0 licensed code.

-1 for allowing other licenses.

-Matt

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