To give more explanations, in my understanding, Codex is designed to replace 
OOUI which is MIT licensed. Even if to me I can just change the license of my 
projects, I believe there definitely exist more complex scenarios where this is 
not viable, which prevents them from migrating to Codex as a whole.

Best regards,
diskdance

-------- Original Message --------
On 12/27/24 3:04 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Il 27/12/24 05:47, diskdance via Wikitech-l ha scritto:
>  > - 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
>  
>  I sympathise and I'd often do the same, but can you elaborate? If you
>  mean because you don't want to include the text of the GPL in your
>  scripts, there are ways around that.
>  
>  The LGPL is mostly useful when you're trying to replace a proprietary
>  library in a proprietary piece of software which cannot be made free.
>  When your dependencies *can* be GPL, the LGPL is actually discouraged:
>  https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html
>  
>  If switching our own gadgets and scripts to GPL is just an
>  inconvenience, that's no good reason to switch Codex to LGPL. If a
>  permissively licensed script ends up being a Codex derivative, they can
>  be switched to GPL any time. Vice versa, if they used a more restrictive
>  license, it might be possible to remove the additional restrictions by
>  invoking ยง7. (But if they're hosted on wiki, they're probably dual
>  licensed to CC BY-SA anyway.)
>  https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html#section7
>  
>  Cheers,
>       Federico
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