I forgot to mention that, OOUI, the previous standard UI library, is licensed
under MIT. I personally believe Codex, as the successor of OOUI, shares the
same reason to be conservative on licensing.
Best regards,
diskdance
On Friday, December 27th, 2024 at 11:47 AM, diskdance via Wikitech-l
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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