On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 3:57 AM, Raylton P. Sousa
<raylton.sousa(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm also interested in a reply
2012/8/6 Helder . <helder.wiki(a)gmail.com>
> 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
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