On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:46, Sergiu
Dumitriu<sergiu(a)xwiki.com> wrote:
Hi devs,
I just noticed that although we've been saying that "This wiki is
licensed under a Creative Commons 2.0 license", all the source files for
the wiki pages are actually under the LGPL, which contradicts the wiki.
So, there are three possible choices:
- change the default copyright notice
- change the license of the applications
- don't change anything, implying that the CC applies only to new
content inserted by the user
Personally I prefer to keep all the wiki content as CC, since LGPL is
not exactly suited for content. However, since most of the default wiki
pages are actually code pages, we could say that they consist mostly of
code, which could go under the LGPL.
IMO we should remove this notice from default XE, as you said it's
mostly code so it would be easier to only have LGPL for everything we
distribute. CC sounds more like the
xwiki.org website content license.
I agree with Thomas, we should drop the CC license from the default
distribution, since:
- it doesn't apply to the initial content
- it might not be what the user wants for his content, and it would
sound like we're pushing a license onto him
Anybody against removing the default license?