I think this is a solvable problem without changing our current licensing. Let's not have a big legal discussion on-list about this (or if we must hash this out publicly, let's do it on a list that deals with legal issues rather than tech issues).
I've assigned the bug to myself, and I'll be consulting with our legal staff. Before I say much more, I'd like to talk to them. Rob On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Mark A. Hershberger <[email protected]> wrote: > > Stephen Smoogen has opened a bug about the license in CSS Janus. This > needs wider discussion, though, so I'm copying it here. > > From https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/36747: > > 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. > > 2) we need to look at mediawiki being used as GPL 3.0 even though it > is not explicitely licensed that way. > > I'll point the bug to the on-list discussion, so please follow up here. > > -- > Mark A. Hershberger > Bugmeister > Wikimedia Foundation > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
