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[Gary Mort]

On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 7:01 PM, forest mars <compustretch at gmail.com> wrote:

> Silly me, I didn't specify JED only, GPL + non-commercial.
>
> So no, I haven't found any non-commercial extensions in JED that
> incorporate this relatively simple JQuery.  :-o
>
>
Hmm,
http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/ads-a-affiliates/banner-management/4378
 perhaps?

I dunno..  I'm slowly giving up on the JED.

I myself prefer to use a mix of licenses..... in fact the license I use MOST
often is Public Domain and I really resent having to put a GPL wrapper
around code I have offered to the public domain just to satisfy some license
fanatic's idea of what is correct.

My second preference is a Creative Commons variant.
Creative Commons, Attribution being the first one on my list for
preferences.  Technically GPL is /supposed/ to be attributed, but quite
often they drop it or bury it[see the Joomla project itself that demands all
attributions be stripped from the code and just a reference placed in the
contributors file for everything].  As an example of this, technically you
could not submit /anything/ for inclusion with Joomla core code using Jquery
since they as that
"You don’t have to do anything special to choose one license or the other
and you don’t have to notify anyone which license you are using. You are
free to use a jQuery project in commercial projects as long as the copyright
header is left intact."
http://jquery.org/license

Since the Joomla team specifically instructs people to strip that header -
which to me is a form of theft and I have found actively encouraged by the
GPL community at large.

Sometimes I go with Creative Commons, Attribution, No Derivatives - the
point of this code being when I have something that is a little 'wonky' and
I don't want someone taking my code, bundling it into something else, and
then get angry emails from someone downstream when something breaks[note: I
don't consider it 'distribution' for someone to download and install my code
on someone else's website..... that's doing work as contracted....
distribution is when you add it to your zipfile and then let people download
it].

Now, naturally this does mean that to do this, I have to be scrupulous clean
about writing every line myself and not copying from some example file where
there is a GPL license floating around[after all, that is the point of COPY
right...to prevent or restrict copying].

Oh well...hope my initial sentence helps you out. :-)

-Gary
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