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].
What do you think?
Best regards,
Helder
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader/Version_2_Design_Specificatio…
[2]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Talk:ResourceLoader/V2_testing/Questi…
[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#Proper_licens…