On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Tyler Romeo <tylerro...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't see how the copyright of MediaWiki's code is bike-shedding at all. > As a volunteer, I'd like to be damn sure MW is actually an open source > project. > > There's a reason copyright licenses exist, and it's to provide freedom for > developers and users. If MW were completely licensed under the WTFPL, > others could copy MW, change it, and then make it proprietary, whereas with > the GPL there is a restriction on that. When I contribute my code to this > project, I am fully aware and happy with the fact that it will *never* be > used in a closed source product. > > Just because some people don't care enough about how laws exist in this > world and we have to operate under them doesn't mean everybody else should > be screwed over. So if we could actually get back on topic rather than > bitching and complaining about doing things some of us don't necessarily > enjoy. >
There's a definite difference between caring about how the code is licensed and debating whether or not headers should be included in minified versions or not. I care how our code is licensed (and headers are great for doing this), but wasting 60+ e-mails over where to include these licenses just to satisfy an overzealous tool...that's bikeshedding. -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
