User:d00p

d00p, hello,
I have amended the Drupal SSO module to work with Drupal 6. Are you willing to allow your original module to be licensed under the GPL, so that both versions can be posted at drupal.org's module repository?

@beanluc @d00p an MIT/Apache/LGPL license would be better. then we can also ship with mindtouch in the contrib folder

@SteveB, From the point-of-view of Drupal users, presence on drupal.org "would be better" than absence at drupal.org.

I am surprised that shipping with Mindtouch is a concern - for three reasons: 1. Including a bit of code constituting a Drupal module in a Mindtouch distribution does not make it a part of the Mindtouch program(s). 2. If the /contrib/ item is GPL code, distribution isn't restricted in that way, and the Mindtouch code isn't restricted in any way either (there's no "viral scare" here). 3. Mindtouch Core is itself GPL - if that can be distributed in the commercial Mindtouch packages, I don't see how another bit of GPL code would be potentially troublesome.

I'll also point out that there's not been any apparent interest before now in including any version of the Drupal module with Mindtouch. I think it would be unfortunate if a sudden move to fatten up the Mindtouch package were to leave the Drupal developer community out of the picture by forcing a license incompatible with drupal.org's repository policy on this module. Not just the dev's - users too. Drupal.org certainly was my own first thought on where to search for this functionality.

In short: I need to hear from d00p before I can even share my amendments here on mindtouch.com, much less anywhere else. There's a certain school of thought which holds that any code written against the API of a GPL product is itself automatically GPL, and following this one concludes with the idea that I don't have to ask d00p what license he prefers and whether I can distribute and modify his code (there's the viral scare - it's not over Mindtouch being infected, it's over d00p's code being infected). Well, I am not as militant as that. I hope d00p is still plugged in here at mindtouch.com, enough to say what d00p thinks should come of d00p's code contribution.

And for that, d00p, I am grateful - thanks for the D5 module. edited 19:57, 12 Jul 2010

@beanluc feel free to ship in any form you like. i merely stated a preference. for compiled code, it's a huge benefit to ship with the distribution since then there is no need to get a compilation environment setup. also, all base libraries in the API are LGPL/Apache to avoid license leakage and enable the author to chose whichever license they want. on the PHP side, things are different and there is no precompilation benefit to begin with

Looking at contribution dates, I'd say that d00p has left the building!