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Hutchy68 / pivot

A MediaWiki mobile skin which "Pivots" seamlessly to any size display.
https://pivot.wikiproject.net
BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
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How to give attribution in BSD-2 License #37

Open Hutchy68 opened 7 years ago

Hutchy68 commented 7 years ago

Continuing from issue #33

Good on one hand since standards are enforced. Bad since you have to find other way to credit over time. So the variation should perhaps be done in README.

More research is needed on this. I have done some preliminary work and will continue to test it.

Hutchy68 commented 7 years ago

This works too:

Copyright (c) 2016-2017 Pivot MediaWiki Skin: Tom Hutchison
Copyright (c) 2013 Foreground MediaWiki Skin: Garrick Van Buren, Jamie Thingelstad 
All rights reserved.

GitHub must look for Copyright (c) as the first characters in each line. Multiple ones are ok as long as the last is All rights reserved.

Hutchy68 commented 7 years ago

@kghbln any thoughts on doing the license like I posted here? I also made some updates to the skin page on mediawiki.org. The version, release date, renamed to 2-Clause BSD for auto categorization, and added a link for bug reporting. Thanks for all your help!

kghbln commented 7 years ago

@Hutchy68 So Pivot is based on Foreground. Yes I think this is a nice solution. You could also add a section to the README telling the license and that is is based on the work of Garrick and Jamie and refer/link to the COPYING file. Just a sentence or too.

About the category detection: I was surprised that skins use a different labeling used for detection. I just fixed that since I believe extensions and skins should be treated alike.

Just updated the Pivot homepage to v1.0.5. :) I have to thank you for your effort!