[OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] Putting simple scripts in the Wiki without violating CC BY-SA 2.0

[Ilya Zverev]

https://gist.github.com would be the better option — it was specifically made for short rarely changing scripts. I keep a couple scripts there. Don't forget to put the license information in the comments in the script header.

Ilya

> 19 сент. 2017 г., в 20:09, Kathleen Lu <kathleen.lu at mapbox.com> написал(а):
> 
> If I were you, I would put the code into GitHub. It may seem like overkill, but it will make it much easier for others to find your scripts. It's free and there is a setting to generate a license file. 
> 
> The wiki is under a CC-SA license, which is not a good match for code. You could explicitly state another license next to the code (copy and paste the license text onto the wiki page). MIT is compatible but I do not think GPL is. I think Apache is probably compatible but seems like overkill for scripts (it includes a patent license).
> 
> (disclaimer: not legal advice, just my 2 cents)
> 
> Best,
> Kathleen
>  
> 
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 10:15 PM SwiftFast <swiftfast at gmx.com> wrote:
> I have a bot[1]. I'd like to publish its scripts. A versioning  system
> like GIT would be overkill, because the scripts are short and rarely
> changing.
> 
> I'm not a lawyer, and I have some questions:
> 
> 1. Suppose I don't state any license, would that implicitly the same
> license of the wiki itself?[2]
> 
> 2. Can I explicitly state a license such as MIT/Apache/GPL? Would any
> of those licenses conflict with the license of the Wiki itself?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:SwiftFast#SwiftFast_bot
> [2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Wiki_content_license
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