Re: [Wikitech-l] Problem with CSS Janus License

2012-05-16 Thread Rob Lanphier
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote: I think this is a solvable problem without changing our current licensing.  Let's not have a big legal discussion on-list about this (or if we must hash this out publicly, let's do it on a list that deals with legal

Re: [Wikitech-l] Problem with CSS Janus License

2012-05-13 Thread Platonides
On 12/05/12 00:18, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: 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

Re: [Wikitech-l] Problem with CSS Janus License

2012-05-13 Thread Platonides
On 12/05/12 00:18, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: 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. I see

Re: [Wikitech-l] Problem with CSS Janus License

2012-05-13 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 13 May 2012 06:36, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/05/12 00:18, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: 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

[Wikitech-l] Problem with CSS Janus License

2012-05-11 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
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

Re: [Wikitech-l] Problem with CSS Janus License

2012-05-11 Thread Chad
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Mark A. Hershberger m...@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

Re: [Wikitech-l] Problem with CSS Janus License

2012-05-11 Thread Bryan Tong Minh
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote:    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

Re: [Wikitech-l] Problem with CSS Janus License

2012-05-11 Thread Rob Lanphier
I think this is a solvable problem without changing our current licensing. Let's not have a big legal discussion on-list about this (or if we must hash this out publicly, let's do it on a list that deals with legal issues rather than tech issues). I've assigned the bug to myself, and I'll be

Re: [Wikitech-l] Problem with CSS Janus License

2012-05-11 Thread David Gerard
On 11 May 2012 16:41, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: 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 :) If it's

Re: [Wikitech-l] Problem with CSS Janus License

2012-05-11 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 11 May 2012 09:03, Mark A. Hershberger m...@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