On 5 March 2013 22:08, Tyler Romeo tylerromeo@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkaldari@wikimedia.org wrote:
I license all of my MediaWiki extensions under an MIT license since I want people to be able to reuse the JS code on-wiki, but some people have claimed that even MIT isn't compatible with CC-BY-SA [1]. I've been thinking about switching to CC-Zero instead. It's funny how most "free software" is so burdened with inane incompatible restrictions that we can't legally use it in many situations. What do people think about using CC-Zero as a license? Now that's free software!
I'm not sure that's true at all. The MIT license is pretty much a proper subset of CC-BY-SA, i.e., it has less restrictions and the restrictions it has are in CC-BY-SA anyway. People are lying to you. ;)
People will say any spurious bollocks in a licence discussion. (You've been on Commons, right?) This is why we have proper lawyers on hand :-)
I appreciate it would be *nice* to put the licence in the JS, Mako makes the point as nicely in the bug as the original poster didn't in this thread. But there must be a method that isn't operationally insane.
- d.