On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Aryeh Gregor <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Domas Mituzas <[email protected]> wrote: >> Which of course allows me to fork the thread and ask why does MediaWiki have >> to be GPL licensed. > > Because all it takes is one developer with substantial contributions > who doesn't want to relicense, and then you have to rewrite all their > contributions and everything based on their contributions if you want > to change the license. That's what a viral license is, after all. Of > course, an independent component could be non-GPL-licensed, if it was > written from scratch. >
Who do we consider significant? Would it be possible to get consensus on a relicensing? -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
