On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Chad <[email protected]> wrote: > Who do we consider significant? Would it be possible to get > consensus on a relicensing?
As far as I know, the way the GPL works makes it effectively impossible to relicense a large project to something more permissive. You'd have to get permission from literally everyone who made nontrivial contributions, or else rewrite their code. But if there's serious interest in this, someone should get an official opinion from Wikimedia's lawyers on how (or if) it could be done. Personally, I don't see any problem with a parser library being GPL. You can still link it with proprietary code as long as you don't distribute the result, so it would be fine for research projects or similar that rely on proprietary components. You can always *use* GPLd code however you like. If you want to *distribute* proprietary (or otherwise GPL-incompatible) code that depends on my volunteer contributions, I'm happy to tell you to go jump off a bridge. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
