On 05/03/13 23:45, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
On 03/05/2013 02:33 PM, Platonides wrote:
On 05/03/13 21:53, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
On 03/05/2013 12:29 PM, Luke Welling WMF wrote:
We should discuss them separately, but this core mediawiki JS is GPL2
https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-core/tree/master/resources
I am referring to Isarra's comment:
"The licensing information is on the page itself, of which the minified
js winds up a part."
As far as I can tell, that is not true for the *code* license(s) for
core and extensions.
Matt Flaschen
Did you look at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/COPYING ?
Do you really expect people to find that?
We're basically talking about what is visible in the "binary" version of
the site.
We all know they can get license information from the source by doing
git clones.
I don't think it's realistic that people will successfully guess they
can visit that /w/COPYING url. And not all the code is under GPLv2
anyway, though it should all be free on WMF sites.
Matt Flaschen
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Alternately, it's the same as how people can find the license of any of
it from the front ('binary') end. The content is specified in the footer
and there is a link to mediawiki for platform information, and the
resulting javascript is a combination of both of those...
But I guess my point was more that I just find it a little strange that
folks would be taking javascript out of that context when such would
never be done with other pieces of a page like images, which have a
similar process to find their copyright information and yet tend to
perhaps be more meaningful out of context than the js.
Although if such images needed to have licensing included in their file
headers as well, while that would result in a complete ruddy mess, it
might actually prove useful to reusers.
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