1202694 - Change cookie library on https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/document/cookie

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[dvincent]

From a twitter request (@chaitanya_gupta)

@MozDevNet The cookie library on https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/document/cookie is GPL so I can't use it on my proprietary website :-( Can you change the license?

Comment 1

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

That code was added by MDN user fusionchess. I've emailed to ask about the license. If possible, we will ask to relicense it. If not, we will probably need to remove that code.

Comment 2

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

Note that all code samples on MDN articles must be CC0. 

"If you wish to contribute to this wiki, you must make your documentation available under the Attribution-ShareAlike license (or occasionally an alternative license already specified by the page you are editing), and your code samples available under Creative Commons CC-0 (a Public Domain dedication). Adding to this wiki means you agree that your contributions will be made available under those licenses."

This was decided so that anybody can copy/paste any code from MDN without having to go into the licensing nightmare.

Comment 3

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

Yep. I'm talking to him in an email thread about that and he's amenable to changing the license but it's unclear if he will go to CC0. I am checking.

Comment 4

[Chaitanya Gupta]

Thanks for taking this up folks! Really appreciate it.

Comment 5

[Janet Swisher]

Sheppy, do you remember the outcome of this? The "library" code (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/document/cookie#Using_relative_URLs_in_the_path_parameter) is still marked as GPL.

Comment 6

[BMO Automation]

MDN Web Docs' bug reporting has now moved to GitHub. From now on, please file content bugs at https://github.com/mdn/sprints/issues/ and platform bugs at https://github.com/mdn/kuma/issues/.