Kamis, 13 September 2012

jQuery Drops GPL License, Sticks to Just the MIT License for Simplicity


jQuery, the most popular JavaScript library out there, is dropping the GPL license it's been using along with the MIT license. While both of these are open source licenses, GPL has more restrictions than an MIT-type license and it was causing confusion among users.

The change doesn't affect the actual code in any way and it doesn't affect how jQuery is distributed and how it can be used. In fact, anyone can take jQuery modify it and then release it under a GPL license since this is permitted under the MIT license.

"Having just one license option makes things easier for the Foundation to manage and eliminates confusion that existed about the Foundation’s previous dual-licensing policy," the jQuery Foundation wrote.

The problem was that with more and more contributors it was getting harder to keep track of everyone so they can be thanked in the contributors list.

What's more, while jQuery is released under a liberal open-source license (well, two licenses until now) it was not always clear that the contributors were entitled to cede copyright to their contributions to jQuery, for example if they wrote the code during work hours.

Via: jQuery Drops GPL License, Sticks to Just the MIT License for Simplicity

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