[wp-hackers] Licensing

[Ryan Boren]

On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 12:29 -0400, Owen Winkler wrote:
> > I don't see why adding an attribution requirement to the 
> > license violates the GPL. In fact, in order to be GPL 
> > compliant the author would need to remove the attribution and 
> > then document that they did so....
> 
> Here's what I want.  The MIT License:
> 
> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
> 
> It requires that the copyright notice be maintained for redistribution,
> and it's GPL-compatible
> (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#Expat).  And that's all I
> ask.  :)

That should work, since it's compatible.

Ryan