Last modified: 2013-10-30 15:21:41 UTC
The Wikipedia application for android as a COPYING file that simply contains the text of a GPL license. We should rename it to LICENSE and in COPYING list all the third parties application we are using as well as their licenses. We are not currently exposing JQuery license nor the PhoneGap one.
It's mentioned in the app (About shows you credits + licenses). Will move it to an external file too
Current situation: COPYING contains the GPL license information CREDITS list the authors and list the external works as well: Wikipedia Mobile builds upon many Open Source works including: * PhoneGap, Apache License 2.0, http://phonegap.com * ShareKit, MIT License, https://github.com/shareKit/ShareKit ** ShareKit includes pre-compiled work from: *** Jon Crosby (OAuthConsumer http://code.google.com/p/oauthconsumer/) MIT License *** Facebook (FBConnect https://github.com/ShareKit/facebook-ios-sdk) Apache License v2 *** John Engelhart (JSONKit https://github.com/johnezang/JSONKit) BSD License or Apache License v2 *** Lukhnos D. Liu (Objective Flickr https://github.com/lukhnos/objectiveflickr) MIT License *** Sam Soffes (SSKeychain https://github.com/samsoffes/sskeychain) MIT License
Apparently GPLv2 (our code) is not compatible with the Apache License v2 (PhoneGapp and Facebook Connect). So we could either: - relicense the app under either GPLv3 or Apache License v2 - add an exception to the GPLv2 that grant permission to link / reuse the Apache License v2 softwares. Also the files needs a License header.
Old app's being retired and replaced, so we probably won't bother with cleaning it up.
