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User Ashok2102 has repeatedly tried to remove the quotation on top containing the entire text of the GNU All-permissive License (I am the author of that page), but I have reverted their edits. I will copy and paste their motivation from the article history: "The page is not about GPL permissive license and the pages ought not to start with a stray quote. Before reverting this edit, please provide relevant reference to wikipedia policy page that allows such a quote at the top!".
User Ashok2102 says that "The page is not about GPL permissive license". But that is a confusion, since the GNU All-permissive License has nothing to do with the GNU General Public License (GPL), and is not a copyleft license, but a (very) permissive one instead.
I think that it is a really good quotation, representative of all permissive licenses (it is short, concise, well written, and it doesn't add inessential parts) and it has been created by the Free Software Foundation with the explicit intention of creating a very permissive license – even in the name. Moreover, citing Wikipedia:Quotations: "Quotations are a good way to comply with the no original research policy" (as what 'permissive' means could be a rather subjective topic). -- Grufo ( talk) 01:46, 4 January 2020 (UTC)
This article currently includes a single example, the GNU All-permissive License. It has the virtue of brevity, even by permissive-license standards but not much else, and in particular isn't actually very widely used as a permissive software license. I would replace it out of hand, probably with the MIT license (as apparently the most widely-used permissive license in practice), but there seems to have been some controversy about it in the past. I will still do so in a few days if I see no objection here. -- 162.247.150.37 ( talk) 00:20, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: not moved. ( closed by non-admin page mover) Vpab15 ( talk) 21:04, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
Permissive software license → Permissive license – See the article, it also contains information on non-software licenses. Avoinlähde ( talk) 19:55, 6 March 2022 (UTC) — Relisting. NW1223 <Howl at me• My hunts> 15:16, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
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Is this term notable enough to warrant inclusion?
It includes 3 citations:
I'd think all 3 of these fall under WP:RS/SPS and WP:UGC. I'm not well versed in wiki stuff so I don't know WP:N works with regards to article content as opposed to entire articles, but this seems to me like it's just including a single individual's rant on the subject. 2604:3D09:E83:5300:911C:D068:BC10:F170 ( talk) 19:11, 17 October 2023 (UTC)
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User Ashok2102 has repeatedly tried to remove the quotation on top containing the entire text of the GNU All-permissive License (I am the author of that page), but I have reverted their edits. I will copy and paste their motivation from the article history: "The page is not about GPL permissive license and the pages ought not to start with a stray quote. Before reverting this edit, please provide relevant reference to wikipedia policy page that allows such a quote at the top!".
User Ashok2102 says that "The page is not about GPL permissive license". But that is a confusion, since the GNU All-permissive License has nothing to do with the GNU General Public License (GPL), and is not a copyleft license, but a (very) permissive one instead.
I think that it is a really good quotation, representative of all permissive licenses (it is short, concise, well written, and it doesn't add inessential parts) and it has been created by the Free Software Foundation with the explicit intention of creating a very permissive license – even in the name. Moreover, citing Wikipedia:Quotations: "Quotations are a good way to comply with the no original research policy" (as what 'permissive' means could be a rather subjective topic). -- Grufo ( talk) 01:46, 4 January 2020 (UTC)
This article currently includes a single example, the GNU All-permissive License. It has the virtue of brevity, even by permissive-license standards but not much else, and in particular isn't actually very widely used as a permissive software license. I would replace it out of hand, probably with the MIT license (as apparently the most widely-used permissive license in practice), but there seems to have been some controversy about it in the past. I will still do so in a few days if I see no objection here. -- 162.247.150.37 ( talk) 00:20, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: not moved. ( closed by non-admin page mover) Vpab15 ( talk) 21:04, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
Permissive software license → Permissive license – See the article, it also contains information on non-software licenses. Avoinlähde ( talk) 19:55, 6 March 2022 (UTC) — Relisting. NW1223 <Howl at me• My hunts> 15:16, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
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Is this term notable enough to warrant inclusion?
It includes 3 citations:
I'd think all 3 of these fall under WP:RS/SPS and WP:UGC. I'm not well versed in wiki stuff so I don't know WP:N works with regards to article content as opposed to entire articles, but this seems to me like it's just including a single individual's rant on the subject. 2604:3D09:E83:5300:911C:D068:BC10:F170 ( talk) 19:11, 17 October 2023 (UTC)