On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Aryeh Gregor <[email protected]<simetrical%[email protected]> > wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote: > > [Two reasons to relicense as part of breaking into libraries:] > > a) To encourage reuse and > > b) Avoid debates about using the libraries with other non-GPL code (eg. > > under PHP license) > > The exact same considerations apply to MediaWiki as a whole, though, > and there are also considerations in favor of GPL. Clearly some > people prefer BSD, but what does this have to do with breaking code > out into libraries? It seems orthogonal, so I was puzzled by you > mentioning it in this particular context. (You can license your files > as BSD if you like even if they're in MediaWiki core, or at least some > people have done that.) It's not strictly orthogonal. It's pretty common practice to have separate licensing for libraries and other reusable components as opposed to finished applications. Precedent: KDE: http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy GNOME: http://live.gnome.org/CopyrightAssignment/Guidelines Rob _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
