Hi! According to some pages on mediawiki.org[1][2], it seems that wiki is going to be a central repository for gadgets which will be shared with WMF projects (and other projects using MediaWiki).
I would like to know if there is any chance of changing the licence requirements for the new "Gadget:" namespace of this central wiki, so that they can be licensed under a true free ''software'' licence such as GPL (without needing to license also under CC-BY-SA, which is not compatible). The main advantage is that this would allow us to import GPL-licensed scripts for use on WMF wikis. Gadget developers could e.g.: * Copy parts of MediaWiki code, and modify it on-wiki (to try to fix bugs, or to customize the default behavior) * Adapt other external scripts for use on Wikimedia Wikis. See also[3]. What do you think? Best regards, Helder [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader/Version_2_Design_Specification#Shared_gadgets [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Talk:ResourceLoader/V2_testing/Questions_about_permission_model_and_developer_workflow [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#Proper_licensing_of_gadgets_and_user_scripts _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
