[wp-hackers] Licensing

Owen Winkler ringmaster at midnightcircus.com
Fri Jun 25 16:29:40 UTC 2004


> 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.  :)

Owen






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