https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30106

--- Comment #5 from Neil Kandalgaonkar <[email protected]> 2011-07-28 
23:31:14 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > MediaWiki is under "GPL v2 or later", so it's actually quite fine to write a
> > GPLv3 extension I would imagine... it just means that the combination when 
> > you
> > load them together is forced to GPLv3 as well.
> 
> Okay, RobLa and I just talked about this in person, and I think I understand 
> it
> now. So we don't mind being open to GPLv3, in the sense that someone could
> write an extension that was GPLv3, and then the combination of MediaWiki plus
> that extension would be GPLv3.
> 
> However, as a matter of WMF policy, is it correct to assume that everyone who
> works for us should be writing GPLv2

That is, GPL v2 or greater. Jeroen wants to abbreviate this as "@license GPL
v2+"; I don't know if that actually has any meaning though.

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