3 Feb
2010
3 Feb
'10
1:55 a.m.
On 02/03/2010 01:01 AM, Caleb James DeLisle wrote:
Gnu lists CC-BY and CC-BY-SA as GPL incompatible
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#OtherLicenses
In my opinion, licensing something under multiple licenses which are
as incompatible is not the best decision, the obvious problem is it is
not allowable to distribute the WAR with the XAR preinstalled.
There may be a problem with the viral nature of LGPL given that the core
(templates) make reference to XE (download the default pages here) and XE
obviously makes a lot of calls to core functions. Since each references the other
it might be hard to claim that XE is using the core is as a library.
I don't agree that this is a valid hard link which would cause the LGPL
core to become viral to the wiki pages.
These are wiki pages.
This is data.
This data is sometimes executable.
This data sometime results in platform methods being called.
A shell script results in bash methods being called.
Must all shell scripts be GPL because they end up executing bash code?
This data gets converted from wiki source to HTML code through the core.
A C program gets converted from C source to executable code through GCC.
Must all C programs be GPL because they pass through GCC?
This is obviously library usage, since it's code that calls API methods
through a proxy.
I think that we need to define what activity we want
to allow and what we want
to prevent.
Caleb
Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
> On 02/02/2010 06:27 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:
>> On Feb 1, 2010, at 10:46 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu 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.
>> Actually our pages are under no license right now (There's no license in the
XML files and there should be one).
>
> Kind of, the license is in the pom. Although it does not appear in each
> file, doesn't the fact that it's a file belonging to a LGPL project
> almost make it LGPL too?
>
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Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/