[darcs-users] moin to gitit migration - we're flipping the switch soon!

[Gwern Branwen]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Jason Dagit <dagit at codersbase.com> wrote:
> Thanks Eric et al.
>
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Eric Kow <kowey at darcs.net> wrote:
>>
>> - Our wiki software is named *git*it even though it's using a darcs
>>  repository.  This may be bad marketing, so we'll have to work out
>>  a gentle way to dealing with this, probably by reminding folks in
>>  the template to darcs get the repo
>
> My preference is to call it a "darcsit" wiki and clearly explain that
> it is an official release of gitit that uses darcs instead of git.
>
>> - LICENSING: since we're thinking about it, how about adopting a
>>  formal license for all new content?  The haskell.org wiki uses
>>  a "simple permissive license" which is the closest practical
>>  thing to public domain they could get:
>
> As long as it's compatible with the darcs source license (currently
> GPL).  We may want to package the two together at some point and
> having them under the same license makes that just a bit more hassle
> free.
>
> Jason

BSD-like licenses (which I believe the haskell.org license is) are
compatible with GPL, yes. We can always license modifications of the
former to the latter (just not the other way around).

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gwern