I think this is a solvable problem without changing our current
licensing. Let's not have a big legal discussion on-list about this
(or if we must hash this out publicly, let's do it on a list that
deals with legal issues rather than tech issues).
I've assigned the bug to myself, and I'll be consulting with our legal
staff. Before I say much more, I'd like to talk to them.
Rob
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Mark A. Hershberger <mah(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Stephen Smoogen has opened a bug about the license in CSS Janus. This
needs wider discussion, though, so I'm copying it here.
From
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/36747:
I am the maintainer of the mediawiki package for Fedora EPEL
project. While putting together the package for 1.19 it was found
that the license to maintenance/cssjanus is ASL 2.0 and the license
for mediawiki is GPL+2.0. The GPL 2. and ASL 2. are not "compatible"
to the FSF so I am trying to work out my options and to find out
what the mediawiki's projects rationale for bundling the two items
together.
1) cssjanus has a GPL exception to its ASL license that mediawiki knows of.
2) we need to look at mediawiki being used as GPL 3.0 even though it
is not explicitely licensed that way.
I'll point the bug to the on-list discussion, so please follow up here.
--
Mark A. Hershberger
Bugmeister
Wikimedia Foundation
mah(a)wikimedia.org
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