This entire conversation is a bit disappointing, mainly because I am a supporter of the free software movement, and like to believe that users should have a right to see the source code of software they use. Obviously not everybody feels this way and not everybody is going to support the free software movement, but I can assure you I personally have no plans on contributing to any WMF project that is Apache licensed, but at the very least MediaWiki core is still GPLv2, even if it makes things a bit more difficult.
Also, I have no idea how the MPL works, but I can assure you that licensing under the “GPLv2 or any later version” cannot possibly imply it is available under both the v2 and v3. The different GPL versions have conflicting terms. You cannot possibly use the terms of the v2 and v3 simultaneously. It is legally impossible. What is means is that you can use the software under the terms of the v2 *or* the v3. And, as I mentioned, since Apache is only compatible with v3, as long as using the software under the v2 is an option, you cannot combine code that is under Apache. -- Tyler Romeo 0x405D34A7C86B42DF On February 9, 2015 at 04:06:54, David Gerard ([email protected]) wrote: On 9 February 2015 at 08:28, Max Semenik <[email protected]> wrote: > OpenOffice's woes are unrelated to its license, it was already dead by > forking when Oracle transferred it to Apache, facilitating a change from > GPL+proprietary CLA to the Apache license. Indeed, but they touted the mythical attractiveness of a permissive license over the bondage of copyleft. And it didn't work that way at all in practice. Again: data, rather than anecdote or surmise? As far as I can tell, the claim that permissive attracts more contributions than copyleft is entirely a myth. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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