On 11 May 2012 09:03, 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.
Another question that came up in the review was the code for
skins/common/wikibits.js => says:
" Written by Jonathan Snook,
http://www.snook.ca/jonathan
Add-ons by Robert Nyman,
http://www.robertnyman.com
Author says "The credit comment is all it takes, no license. Go crazy
with it!:-)"
From
http://www.robertnyman.com/2005/11/07/the-ultimate-getelementsbyclassname/
"
While the license sounds like it is "Public Domain" that can cause
problems in various places. Also in trying to find the code that is
referenced.. (snook.ca) I could not find a copy to see what its
license was. The second site doesn't recommend that code anymore but
recommends a GPL2+ updated version.
--
Stephen J Smoogen.
"The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance."
Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University.
"Years ago my mother used to say to me,... Elwood, you must be oh
so smart or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I
recommend pleasant. You may quote me." —James Stewart as Elwood P. Dowd