One question is whether adding tiddlers 'modifies' the tiddlywiki source or not. If I have checkout out tiddlywiki from git and am building it from tiddlers, I can edit the templates to change the license and so I have modified the source. But as the purpose of a tiddlywiki is to build tiddlers into an html file, any other tiddlers added I would not consider that to be modifying the source, but as a function of the program. But it would be good if Jeremy modified the templates to enable the license to be modified without editing it.
I think even if adding tiddlers is considered modifying the tw code, those modification belong to the author not to tiddlywiki. As the bsd license only stipulates that you must include the license statment, you are free to choose a license for your own work. As long as your tiddlers are all your own work (do not contain any (modified) tiddlywiki code) then it would seem they are completely under your control. On Wednesday, July 22, 2015 at 10:58:06 PM UTC+1, Jed Carty wrote: > > The BSD license explicitly states that modifications of the source code > are also subject to the BSD license. Because it is a single file everything > in the wiki is part of the code and you can not remove the BSD license from > the code or from any part of the code, even if the part you want to remove > the license from is your modification. > > The relevant part of the license is: > > Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without > modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: > > Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, > this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. > > Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, > this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation > and/or other materials provided with the distribution. > > For TiddlyWiki (at least as an html file) the two conditions are > equivalent. The license is useful in the context of open source software > because it applies to all modifications of and derivatives made from the > code. So anything contained in a tiddlywiki is part of the source code and > therefore subject to this license. > > In most other coding contexts the code can be separated into different > files or libraries which allows you to use BSD licensed code with a larger > project that contains components that don't use an open source license. As > far as I can tell the situation brought about by using tiddlywiki for > creative works is unique and none of the licenses fit this situation > because they consider the source code for each library or application as a > collection of distinct entities, not a monolithic entity that contains > distinct modules that can each be subject to their own license independent > of the container. > > I don't think that this use is in anyway in opposition to the ideas of > free software, but it is a situation that hasn't been addressed yet so none > of the existing licenses allow what we want. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/53f5158b-faff-47aa-9bef-510860cc479e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
