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: But then, while this is my site, and I have the ultimate say, if I screw up here, I'll drive off many of my most valuable users--the people who actually edit, review and contribute tasks and code. So if we do any sort of sitewide license switch, I'll need the involvement of as many of Rosetta Code's active contributers as I can get in the discussion. And judging by the history of source code and license philosophy, it's likely to be a messy, convoluted one. I don't think wikitalk will be a good format for it. (I wonder if a NNTP hierarchy could be built out of the MediaWiki categories, and the Talk namespace pages be replaced with an interface to it. I'd be most comfortable in an environment like that. But that risks getting expensive in bandwidth and disk space.) --[[User:Short Circuit|Short Circuit]] 06:01, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
:: The "incrementally" idea is good to me. I believe a not-so-far-from-GPL(v2) license or "compatible" can be ok. Anyway still some shadows (from the "legal stuff" point of view). As already said: RC allowed GPLed code to be here, if cited properly; this means that RC even though mainly licensed with GNU FDL for "direct" contributes, contains (and can contain) also GPLed codes. As said (again), if this was possible (and still possible it seems), then it seems that if I dislike the licensing of RC, I can write my own code on "my site", and then cite it, so I keep my GPL... If it will be no possible in future, it means that "cited GPLed code" must be removed...? (Or special exception should be created?)... --[[User:ShinTakezou|ShinTakezou]] 18:25, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
:: FWIW I don't have a whole lot of time for programming hobbies these days (hopefully again soon) but personally I'd be happy to declare anything I, personally, posted here as CC-Attr and leave it at that. And, really, PD would be fine with me - if I didn't want people to use my code, why would I put it on a website that is all about "how to do certain things in a certain language"?. Quite frankly I doubt the sincerity (or sanity) of anybody who puts code world-visible on the internet but then declares they don't want it to spread... Maybe a quick email dashed off to everybody who has contributed and in the best case they all simply agree on a CC-Attr type license and it'll all be really painless...[[User:Sgeier|Sgeier]] 21:57, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
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