On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Trevor Parscal <[email protected]>wrote:

> VisualEditor is MIT licensed. It was originally GPLv2 by default as per my
> contract with Wikimedia, but early on we got written permission from all
> authors to change it. We did this because we wanted to ensure maximum
> license compatibility for re-use in non-MediaWiki systems.
>
>
Aren't our contracts generally written to allow us to use any OSI compliant
license, with a preference to GPL 2?

- Ryan
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