On 29 May 2006, at 06:28, Nedjo Rogers wrote:
Our CVS policy states "All code must be licensed under GNU/ GPL" (contributions README.txt).
While some licenses are compatible, we feel it is best not to mix licenses. Drupal.org's package management system automatically adds the GPL license to all packages. If we allow other licenses in CVS, it is going to get messy, and sooner or later we're going to run into licensing issues. Already, we get quite a few questions about Drupal's license. If we are going to add more licenses to the mix, it is going to be harder to audit, or provide answers to such questions. So, not allowing other licenses in CVS is a deliberate choice. We've also decided against mirroring other projects in our CVS repositories -- unless there are good reasons to do so. So when people need a Javascript library (as per your example), it is best to instruct them to download that library from that project's website. -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/