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

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