On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Kevin Israel pleasestand@live.com wrote:
On 03/06/2013 07:30 AM, Platonides wrote:
On 06/03/13 13:24, Platonides wrote:
I just checked and there are 73 authors of the resources of MediaWiki core. More than I expected, but not unworkable. We could relicense our css and javascript as MIT, MPL, GPL-with-explicit-exception...
I was going to provide the full list: [...]
Don't forget the 58 other authors of skins/ (although some commits touching that path might not be to CSS or JS):
$ git log --format=format:%an --no-merges resources/ | sort -u > ../resources.txt $ git log --format=format:%an --no-merges skins/ | sort -u > ../skins.txt $ comm -23 ../skins.txt ../resources.txt [...]
Jack Phoenix
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Let me just state this for the record: I find copyright paranoia and associated acts, such as this very thread with 59 (and counting!) messages absurd, ridiculous and a complete waste of time. Please feel free to treat my code contributions as you wish; my code has been Public Domain since 2010 (see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Jack_Phoenix/extensions) and I'm not objected to (re)licensing the unlicensed ones to Public Domain (or alternatively, licensing them under Ævar's awesome Do Whatever The Fuck You Want With It license, the DWTFYWWI, version 1 or any later version at your convenience or whatever the fuck you may prefer).
Global user preferences (bug #14950), for example, would be both very nice and useful to have and certainly a lot more productive than a legalese discussion on who wrote what and what constitutes/doesn't constitute as downloading or whatever. At this rate, we'll soon be debating about the very meaning of the word "is". Now can we please get back to actual development discussion and writing code?
Thanks and regards, -- Jack Phoenix MediaWiki developer