I'm also interested in a reply 2012/8/6 Helder . <[email protected]>
> 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 > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
