- To clarify that Wikimedia wikis may host gadgets and user scripts
licensed under GPL and not CC BY-SA.
We'd need some technical changes to make that possible on top of the policy changes, I think? Insofar as submitting a JS page currently gets the exact same licensing blurb above the publish button as all other wiki content, so there's currently no way to submit something *without* licensing it as (generally, depending on project) CC-BY-SA4+GDFL. Apart from arguably using Special:Import for all edits, I guess, but almost nobody is allowed to use that.
(There's probably a bunch of other complications about having some random bits of on-wiki content licensed differently, given usage of the database dumps by various people. But that's for the lawyers to think about.)
On Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 7:35 AM Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Il 27/12/24 18:17, Siddharth VP ha scritto:
Also, some concerns have been raised previously about GPL not being compatible with CC-BY-SA. Since all code hosted on-wiki are implicitly under CC-BY-SA, they cannot also be GPL-licensed, *meaning that gadgets
and
user scripts cannot use Codex at all.*
Is the premise of this theory that gadgets and user scripts *must* in all cases be licensed under CC BY-SA? That's incorrect, as https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Terms_of_Use#7 makes plainly clear, because various cases exist where other licenses apply. Of course you can't take GPL code as is and expect to relicense it under CC BY-SA, but that's not necessary.
It seems we have already two interesting questions for WMF legal:
- To clarify that Wikimedia wikis may host gadgets and user scripts
licensed under GPL and not CC BY-SA.
- In which cases a user script or gadget using Codex would trigger
§5(3) https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html#section5 [as opposed to creating a mere "aggregate"].
There's no need to rush any decisions until such questions are answered.
On (1) I'll note:
- This can leverage the ToS provision that «The only exception is if the
Project edition or feature requires a different license. In that case, you agree to license any text you contribute under the particular license prescribed by the Project edition or the feature.»
- Conversion from CC BY-SA to GPLv3 for legacy content is explicitly
allowed by the importing clause thanks to the one-way compatibility: < https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/licensing-considerations/compati...
.
- The text import clause is not particularly useful for GPL text because
the compatibility is one way.
- I would not recommend having GFDL-only code, though it may be allowed
by the terms of use.
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