[wpdd-discuss] [PATCH www] Add instructions for testing out the site locally

[Jason Yundt]

On Tue, Oct 04, 2022 at 09:13:48PM -0700, Jason Self wrote:
> On Tue,  4 Oct 2022 07:57:08 -0400
> Jason Yundt <jason at jasonyundt.email> wrote:
> 
> > The goal of this change is to allow contributors to test out their
> > contributions before submitting them.
> > 
> > I chose to use port 49152 since it’s the first private port [1]. I
> > could have used the default ports for HTTP or HTTPS, but using
> > those ports requires root access.
> 
> Thank you. To be sure, what sort of copyright/licensing is placed on
> the lighttpd configuration file?
CC BY-SA 4.0.

> The website itself is CC BY-SA but this wouldn't necessarily carry
> over into files such as this, as the lighttpd configuration file isn't
> a derivative work of the website.
The README says “Aside from trademarks, this work is licensed under the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/”. I guess that it depends
on what “this work” is. I assumed that “this work” was the entire repo
and that my commit would be a derivative of the repo.

> I wonder if such a configuration file might even be copyrightable
> to begin with. In any event I wonder if CC0 might be appropriate for
> the avoidance of doubt? In the future I might have recommended the
> WPDD but it's still in draft state. Whatever is decided, it can be
> noted as a comment in the configuration file.
I’ll submit a new version that uses CC0 on the config file.

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