On 2015-02-11 10:06 AM, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerromeo@gmail.com wrote:
And, as a result, since MediaWiki is licensed under the v2+ rather than v3, we cannot accept Apache-licensed code into core.
We cannot. But our users can. And our users can also combine with GPL v2-only code.
The set of acceptable core licenses is thus *more* restrictive ("GPL v2+" and those licenses compatible with it) so that our users have *more* freedom (license combined works under GPLv2, GPLv3, AGPL (maybe), etc). That's how it works. It's not hard. --scott
I know at least one Apache licensed library that would be really good to have in core (see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Change_LESS_compilation_...).
So I'm a little more concerned about our ability to put Apache licensed code into core than a distributor's ability to bundle MediaWiki with GPLv2-only code.
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/]