[vwnc] WikiWorks - what license?

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> On Jun 29, 2008, at 11:38 PM, Bruce Badger wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> Does anyone know either or both of:
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>> o what license is the WikiWorks wiki in the Public Cincom Store under?
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>> o who was the original author?
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> I'd like to know that too :-)
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> I think Ralph Johnson authoritatively knows the answer to both these  
> questions, so I CC-ed him.
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> Ralph can you help us with this?
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> TIA,
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> I was of the impression that is was a UIUC student project.
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> From: "Reinout Heeck" <[hidden email]>
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> Subject: Re: [vwnc] WikiWorks - what license?
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>> On Jun 29, 2008, at 11:38 PM, Bruce Badger wrote:
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>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Does anyone know either or both of:
>>>
>>> o what license is the WikiWorks wiki in the Public Cincom Store  
>>> under?
>>>
>>> o who was the original author?
>>
>>
>> I'd like to know that too :-)
>>
>>
>> I think Ralph Johnson authoritatively knows the answer to both these
>> questions, so I CC-ed him.
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>> Ralph can you help us with this?

> 2008/6/30 Travis Griggs <[hidden email]>:
>> Ken Treis and I wrote the first versions of WikiWorks following  
>> OOPSLA
>> '98 where XP made the public splashdown. We wanted to try pair
>> programming ...
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> Well, I've been using your wiki since the late 90's (i.e. right after
> you wrote it) so thank you very much indeed for the original work.
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> I would like to understand the licensing, though.  To use your
> (Travis, Ken, Ralf) code legally, some kind of permission is needed,
> and I've been bitten quite enough just recently to make assumptions
> about licensing.
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> Another contributor, of course, is Jim Robertson with his RSS code and
> spam filtering.  What is your view on licensing, James?
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> On Jun 30, 2008, at 1:59 PM, Ralph Johnson wrote:
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>> As I said to Bruce, Travis Griggs was the original author.  Several
>> people at UIUC hacked
>> on it.  I probably changed it as much as anyone.
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>> I don't think we worried about copyright much back then.  When people
>> would ask, i would say "public domain".  Some people don't like that
>> answer, and want a particular license.  I suppose we could put MIT or
>> BSD style license on it, but then we'd have to have an owner.
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> Ken and I are both fine calling the origination public domain.
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> I've often thought I should come up with some screwy esoteric license
> that is public domain but requires bizarre and inane actions. E.g.
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> "This software is public domain. You can use it for whatever you
> want... BUT, on the third thursday of every month you must say 'Mr.
> Anderson' to someone.
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> You can sue us for any liability, but preconditions for pursuing legal
> recourse involve giving us a large island of our own in the South
> Pacific, replete with sharks with friggin laser beams on their
> forheads."
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