Are there any plans of MediaWiki migrating from GPLv2 to GPLv3? If so, will GPLv2 still be supported in future release?
On 2/17/09 11:34 AM, Trond Olsen wrote:
Are there any plans of MediaWiki migrating from GPLv2 to GPLv3? If so, will GPLv2 still be supported in future release?
We have no particular plans to update to GPLv3 at this time.
Any particular interest in us converting or not in the future?
-- brion
It was in regard to if you're mixing in GPLv2 compatible sourcecode and then later will be unable to receive security updates if MediaWiki becomes GPLv3 only.
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 2/17/09 11:34 AM, Trond Olsen wrote:
Are there any plans of MediaWiki migrating from GPLv2 to GPLv3? If so,
will
GPLv2 still be supported in future release?
We have no particular plans to update to GPLv3 at this time.
Any particular interest in us converting or not in the future?
-- brion
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Most GPLed code is "GPL version #, or later". That's what MediaWiki is, so even if a move to GPLv3 is made anything specifying the ", or later" which all the MW extensions using GPL in svn should be, then that code can still be used because the ", or later" allows the code to be used under GPLv3
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Trond Olsen wrote:
It was in regard to if you're mixing in GPLv2 compatible sourcecode and then later will be unable to receive security updates if MediaWiki becomes GPLv3 only.
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 2/17/09 11:34 AM, Trond Olsen wrote:
Are there any plans of MediaWiki migrating from GPLv2 to GPLv3? If so,
will
GPLv2 still be supported in future release?
We have no particular plans to update to GPLv3 at this time.
Any particular interest in us converting or not in the future?
-- brion
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I see now that the different sourcecode mentions "GPL version #, or later". I'm only using the webservices API so misunderstood the COPYING file which only says GPLv2, but that's only a reference for GPLv2.
Thanks for the answers.
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Daniel Friesen dan_the_man@telus.netwrote:
Most GPLed code is "GPL version #, or later". That's what MediaWiki is, so even if a move to GPLv3 is made anything specifying the ", or later" which all the MW extensions using GPL in svn should be, then that code can still be used because the ", or later" allows the code to be used under GPLv3
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://nadir-seen-fire.com] -Nadir-Point (http://nadir-point.com) -Wiki-Tools (http://wiki-tools.com) -MonkeyScript (http://monkeyscript.nadir-point.com) -Animepedia (http://anime.wikia.com) -Narutopedia (http://naruto.wikia.com) -Soul Eater Wiki (http://souleater.wikia.com)
Trond Olsen wrote:
It was in regard to if you're mixing in GPLv2 compatible sourcecode and
then
later will be unable to receive security updates if MediaWiki becomes
GPLv3
only.
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org
wrote:
On 2/17/09 11:34 AM, Trond Olsen wrote:
Are there any plans of MediaWiki migrating from GPLv2 to GPLv3? If so,
will
GPLv2 still be supported in future release?
We have no particular plans to update to GPLv3 at this time.
Any particular interest in us converting or not in the future?
-- brion
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On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Trond Olsen tolsen77@gmail.com wrote:
It was in regard to if you're mixing in GPLv2 compatible sourcecode and then later will be unable to receive security updates if MediaWiki becomes GPLv3 only.
You would in any event be able to receive and apply security updates. You would, at most, be forbidden from distributing them combined with the GPLv2-only source code (like, I don't know, if you ported some function from the Linux kernel to PHP?).
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