Hi Abraham, You are right. IMO licenses are important and TW plugins have a well defined mechanism, to distribute the license file / links with plugins.
I do have a problem with the "license now" link you posted. From my point of view, it only shows a very limited short list. IMO this alphabetical view https://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical gives a more complete list of *open source* licenses. (I know that the number is overwhelming, but I'll try to shorten it later in the text ... ) The https://opensource.org/ project page also describes the background for open source licenses a little bit. So everyone can make up their own opinion. *What tiddlywiki.com already uses: * - TW core uses the BSD - 3 clause <https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause> license. Also see: TiddlyWiki5 Individual Contributor License Agreement [1] - TW core documentation uses CC-BY <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/> Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 ... Also see: [1] *Existing best practice for plugin authors*: - The plugin.info file eg: [2] contains a list-field that should list minimum 2 tiddlers - license - readme - The license tiddler should contain the license text for the plugin - or a link to the license, if the text is much longer than the plugin itself. or - for convenience. See: [3] - The license tiddler can contain the license text for 3rd-party licenses [4] - Also see [1] For documentation the Creative Commons licenses make more sense, since they have been designed for that purpose. For code OpenSource licenses make more sense since they have ... *My personal thoughts* I think, that GPL and cousins doesn't fit well for tiddlywiki atm. They are very strong, if compilers are involved. So in the future with web-assembly, they may be part of future development of TW. If a project I want to use, has a license, that doesn't fit. ... Talk to the author! If I start my own plugins, I use a very restrictive license at the beginning! eg: CC-BY-NC-SA Because making them free is easy. ... The other way around is impossible. More responses can be found here in the group at: TiddlyWiki, licensing and creative works <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tiddlywiki/Itt-_P-k-Og/discussion> just my thoughts have fun! mario [1] TiddlyWiki5 Individual Contributor License Agreement <https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/blob/master/licenses/cla-individual.md#23-outbound-license> [2] https://github.com/wikilabs/plugins/blob/master/wikilabs/uni-link/plugin.info#L9 [3] https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/blob/master/plugins/tiddlywiki/codemirror/files/codemirror.js#L2 [4] https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/blob/master/plugins/tiddlywiki/d3/files/LICENSE -- 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 tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/d9a844f9-5e22-4fd8-b184-e8f69a75ee7e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
