On 7 February 2015 at 23:39, wctaiwan <wctaiwan+lists(a)gmail.com> wrote:
IANAL, but if there is some flexibility here, I would
argue that extensions
should *not* be considered derivatives. Legally, because extensions do not
contain MediaWiki code (beyond using the programming API provided by core
classes);
Ah, good! Yeah, programming to a provided and documented API should be
fine. (With WordPress, themes and plugins are very much programs
running in the same process, etc.)
in practice, because we have many extensions licensed
under
licenses that are incompatible with GPL,[1] and I don't think we should
require people to choose a GPL-compatible licence should they want to write
MediaWiki extensions.
[1]
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:MIT_licensed_extensions
- d.