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Aug 7, 2012, 1:07 PM
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Re: Free software license for (global) gadgets
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On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 3:57 AM, Raylton P. Sousa
<raylton.sousa [at] gmail> wrote:
> I'm also interested in a reply
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> 2012/8/6 Helder . <helder.wiki [at] gmail>
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>> 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
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