Dear all,
I'm surprised to figure out that, Codex, the new design system and Vue
component library of Wikimedia, is licensed under GPL, not LGPL or a permissive
license. To me, this raises several problems:
- The current license indicates that, code that uses the Vue components or
design tokens from Codex has to be licensed under GPL as well. This can be
problematic at times and is what LGPL is designed to solve.
- I'm the maintainer of some on-wiki gadgets. Many of them are very tiny so
licensing them under GPL doesn't make much sense -- in my humble opinion, GPL
is designed for large projects so I usually choose a permissive license for
them. If I use Codex in these projects, they can no longer be licensed under
such licenses.
I sincerely hope the maintainer of Codex can clarify this issue and provide
solutions, if possible.
Best regards,
diskdance
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