Primarily meant their migration from a copyleft to a permissive license, as summarized in the top answer. Although the second top answer also brings up a separate interesting argument concerning the optional attribution requirement.
-- Tyler Romeo https://parent5446.nyc 0x405D34A7C86B42DF From: Greg Grossmeier <[email protected]> Reply: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <[email protected]> Date: December 21, 2015 at 12:04:42 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] StackExchange drama over proposed MIT/SE crayon license Why? Creative Commons licenses aren't for source code, as CC itself says :). SE using CC for code has been annoying me for ages. -- Sent from my phone, please excuse brevity. On Dec 21, 2015 10:52 AM, "Tyler Romeo" <[email protected]> wrote: > I find this very disappointing indeed, and I hope the StackExchange staff > take the community feedback seriously and decide to not implement this > change. > > -- > Tyler Romeo > https://parent5446.nyc > 0x405D34A7C86B42DF > > From: Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]> > Reply: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list < > [email protected]> > Date: December 21, 2015 at 03:23:58 > To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list < > [email protected]> > Subject: [MediaWiki-l] StackExchange drama over proposed MIT/SE crayon > license > > > https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/271080/the-mit-license-clarity-on-using-code-on-stack-overflow-and-stack-exchange/271106 > > There are comments from a MediaWiki developer too: > https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/271112/ > > https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/271080/the-mit-license-clarity-on-using-code-on-stack-overflow-and-stack-exchange/271106?noredirect=1#comment878847_271085 > > Nemo > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
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