I hope the people upvoting this are doing it to encourage discussion, not to agree with this totally inane post. There is no controversy.
Dual licensing confused people for no good reason. Some people thought that including jQuery in their own projects would somehow apply the GPL on their project, since that was one of the licenses. The idea of choosing one license and not the other seemed odd, and most people are just users (not derivative work creators) so it doesn't even affect them.
> Some users were surprised by the change
Nobody has expressed surprise anywhere but the few people who posted here without reading the original post. The link to the bug tracker wasn't a user surprised by the change, it was someone simply reporting that we'd forgotten to remove the GPL from one of about two dozen pages where we had it mentoned. That's fixed now.
> A search of the site shows that details of the actual agreements are not currently available.
The only reason we didn't link the CLA or CAA is because it contains a form that the contributor submits and we don't want a bunch of crap posted back to us by people who aren't contributors. dave1010uk posted a link to the text below, and I've added a todo to make that text available on another page.
Dual licensing confused people for no good reason. Some people thought that including jQuery in their own projects would somehow apply the GPL on their project, since that was one of the licenses. The idea of choosing one license and not the other seemed odd, and most people are just users (not derivative work creators) so it doesn't even affect them.
> Some users were surprised by the change
Nobody has expressed surprise anywhere but the few people who posted here without reading the original post. The link to the bug tracker wasn't a user surprised by the change, it was someone simply reporting that we'd forgotten to remove the GPL from one of about two dozen pages where we had it mentoned. That's fixed now.
> A search of the site shows that details of the actual agreements are not currently available.
The only reason we didn't link the CLA or CAA is because it contains a form that the contributor submits and we don't want a bunch of crap posted back to us by people who aren't contributors. dave1010uk posted a link to the text below, and I've added a todo to make that text available on another page.