On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Mark A. Hershberger mah@wikimedia.org wrote:
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.
This is an actual problem that we need to fix :\ Either we need some kind of license exception as suggested, or we'll need to find something to replace it that's compatible (or do it ourselves...)
2) we need to look at mediawiki being used as GPL 3.0 even though it is not explicitely licensed that way.
I'm not 100% sure what's being asked here? Is this a request to relicense MediaWiki under GPLv3 instead of v2? Or is this a question of it being mis-licensed under v3 when we actually specify v2? Clarification is needed :)
-Chad