[Toolserver-l] Changes to expired accounts web hosting

Nikola Smolenski smolensk at eunet.rs
Fri Feb 5 21:07:20 UTC 2010


Дана Friday 05 February 2010 21:53:15 River Tarnell написа:
> Nikola Smolenski:
> >I suggest to change this to simply: "licensed under the GNU GPL v3 or any
> >later version."
>
> I don't think this is a good idea.  The GPL is one of the most restrictive
> open source licenses and using it automatically could hinder reuse later. 
> A better choice might be something like the CDDL or MPL, which are also
> copyleft.

They aren't GPL compatible, and the MediaWiki itself (where the code may end 
up being used) is GPL. If you think GPL is too restrictive, LGPL at least.

> (BTW: I like the suggestion to let users specify a license for all of their
> tools, rather than having to do each one individually.)

Have I suggested that?



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