On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Mark A. Hershberger <m...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > I am the maintainer of the mediawiki package for Fedora EPEL > project. While putting together the package for 1.19 it was found > that the license to maintenance/cssjanus is ASL 2.0 and the license > for mediawiki is GPL+2.0. The GPL 2. and ASL 2. are not "compatible" > to the FSF so I am trying to work out my options and to find out > what the mediawiki's projects rationale for bundling the two items > together. > > 1) cssjanus has a GPL exception to its ASL license that mediawiki knows of. >
This is an actual problem that we need to fix :\ Either we need some kind of license exception as suggested, or we'll need to find something to replace it that's compatible (or do it ourselves...) > 2) we need to look at mediawiki being used as GPL 3.0 even though it > is not explicitely licensed that way. > I'm not 100% sure what's being asked here? Is this a request to relicense MediaWiki under GPLv3 instead of v2? Or is this a question of it being mis-licensed under v3 when we actually specify v2? Clarification is needed :) -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
