On 8 November 2011 18:02, Olivier Beaton <[email protected]> wrote:

> If it's on company time it's All Rights Reserved and will never see
> the light of day. Way too many lawyers over here. Anyways it looks for
> my perticular case I'll probably end up with just a BSD header (was
> most likely overthinking/overparanoid), but as I keep repeating, and
> which Rob pointed out, it would be a good thing to a have a documented
> guideline (based on consensus) about what can be accepted into the
> repo. Key questions like is-gpl-compatability a must? Not all OSI
> licenses are IIRC.


To what degree are extensions derivatives, under copyright law, of
MediaWiki code? Enough to have to be GPLed? That's a thorny one.

(WordPress says all WordPress themes are derivatives and must
therefore be GPL, for example. There's a thriving cottage industry in
selling WordPress themes, but this would mean they wouldn't have much
leverage to stop customers then giving them away, even if that's not
how copyright technically works.)


- d.

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