On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 3:57 AM, Raylton P. Sousa <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]. >>
Also Lua modules? -Liangent >> 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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
