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 Post subject: GPL code on the wiki
PostPosted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 6:33 pm 
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I feel that as a community, having GPL code on the wiki is a bad idea. I feel that most instances of GPL code on the wiki can, and should be replaced with a more public domain license. This can be especially infuriating when the code is the only proper documentation of features (I'm looking at you floppy article)

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 Post subject: Re: GPL code on the wiki
PostPosted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 7:15 pm 
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Where is this GPL code?

Are you refering to: http://wiki.osdev.org/Floppy_Disk_Controller

Could not find any reference to GPL there (except GPL1 and GPL2 which is something else)

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 Post subject: Re: GPL code on the wiki
PostPosted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 7:20 pm 
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As mentioned, any references to GPL1/GPL2 in that article are of a technical nature..

Read the surrounding text, "GPL" stands for Gap Length, in that context.

The preferred license on the Wiki is CC0 (..there is a sticky topic, read it), there may still be content under other similarly permissive licenses.. but nothing GPL licensed, as that would be inappropriate for examples.

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 Post subject: Re: GPL code on the wiki
PostPosted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 3:55 pm 
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There are a couple of external links to GPL implementations of floppy disk controller code at the bottom of the article. I can't see what's wrong with that, though. We're not including any GPL code, just giving pointers to implementations that just so happen to be GPL'd.


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 Post subject: Re: GPL code on the wiki
PostPosted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 4:24 pm 
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Hi,

Blacklight wrote:
There are a couple of external links to GPL implementations of floppy disk controller code at the bottom of the article. I can't see what's wrong with that, though. We're not including any GPL code, just giving pointers to implementations that just so happen to be GPL'd.

That's fine! It's not like the code for Google has to be GPL'd because you can find GPL'd stuff using their search engine, just as giving a link to Visual Studio Express doesn't mean the wiki is in violation of anything just because VS is closed source. Giving links to illegal downloads is another matter...

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