CC-BY-SA/GFDL is in the same spirit as GPL, which is an obviously acceptable license for WMF (since MediaWiki is written in it).
Can you explain the need to relicense it under MIT? 2013/9/26 Steven Walling <swall...@wikimedia.org> > Forwarding, with permission. > > For background the "AFC Helper" script is one that assists English > Wikipedians reviewing pages in the Articles for Creation queue, which > currently is severely backlogged. > > Any thoughts on the licensing issue, from folks with experience on the > question of gadget/userscript licensing? > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Mr. Donald J. Fortier II <technical...@yahoo.com> > Date: Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 8:30 PM > Subject: afch licensing question > To: "swall...@wikimedia.org" <swall...@wikimedia.org> > > > Per the discussion on https://github.com/WPAFC/afch/issues/61 one of the > previous contributors to the project refuses to agree to relicense AFCH > under the MIT license. Right now, the script is licensed under > CC-BY-SA/GFDL, as it was originally coded on-wiki (per > [[Wikipedia:Copyright]] -- all text-based contributions). This came about > due to some confusion that can be seen > https://github.com/WPAFC/afch/issues/60. So, we are unsure as to where to > go from here. If we replace any code contributed to the project by the > person that refuses to agree, can we dissolve any requirements to get him > to agree? Is there enough contribution from him to actually worry about it > as he hasn't actually written any functions, just converted some stuff from > old school JavaScript to jQuery? Any advice/assistance on this would be > appreciated. > > > > -- > Steven Walling, > Product Manager > https://wikimediafoundation.org/ > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Project director Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. +49-30-219 158 26-0 | http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
