On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 9:19 PM, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote:
> Regarding "keeping the big header is important", I don't think anyone > barely into CS on this century can not know what the GPL is (and not > figure out in 5 minutes). > > An excerpt like this would be perfectly fine imho: > «This MediaWiki file is licensed under the terms of GPL 2 or later, as > published in http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl2 See the COPYING file for > details.» > It has nothing to do with whether or not they know the GPL. As the FLC link explains, it is about clearly conveying that the code is indeed copyrighted under a certain license, such that somebody who violates the license cannot claim innocence or otherwise try and push some of the blame onto us. That said, I really don't think bikeshedding over reducing a license header from 4 lines of text to 2 lines really makes a difference. I'd much rather use the format advised by GNU itself, considering they did write the license. (As for the whole warranty disclaimer, which takes up its own 4 lines, I do not know enough to argue for or against whether it is necessary, since software liability is a separate legal device from copyright.) *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
