Primarily meant their migration from a copyleft to a permissive license, as summarized in the top answer. Although the second top answer also brings up a separate interesting argument concerning the optional attribution requirement.
-- Tyler Romeo https://parent5446.nyc 0x405D34A7C86B42DF
From: Greg Grossmeier greg@wikimedia.org Reply: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: December 21, 2015 at 12:04:42 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] StackExchange drama over proposed MIT/SE crayon license
Why? Creative Commons licenses aren't for source code, as CC itself says :).
SE using CC for code has been annoying me for ages.
-- Sent from my phone, please excuse brevity. On Dec 21, 2015 10:52 AM, "Tyler Romeo" tylerromeo@gmail.com wrote:
I find this very disappointing indeed, and I hope the StackExchange staff take the community feedback seriously and decide to not implement this change.
-- Tyler Romeo https://parent5446.nyc 0x405D34A7C86B42DF
From: Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com Reply: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list < mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Date: December 21, 2015 at 03:23:58 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list < mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: [MediaWiki-l] StackExchange drama over proposed MIT/SE crayon license
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/271080/the-mit-license-clarity-on-u...
There are comments from a MediaWiki developer too: https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/271112/
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/271080/the-mit-license-clarity-on-u...
Nemo
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