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On Thursday, 12 February 2015, 14:42, Bryan Tong Minh
<bryan.tongm...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 12:22 AM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10 February 2015 at 23:19, Bryan Tong Minh <bryan.tongm...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > In fact I would prefer to go to a less restrictive license, but that is
> > probably not worth the fight.
>
>
> And is also infeasible. For a web service. GPL is effectively weak
> copyleft already; I think that's quite weak enough. (As I noted, there
> is no actual evidence that permissive licenses secure more
> contributions than copyleft, and some evidence the other way; despite
> fans of permissive licenses repeating the claims ad nauseam over the
> last fifteen years, they're notably short on examples.)
>
> I am not particularly convinced that for many MediaWiki contributors the
choice of license was a factor when starting to contribute to MediaWiki. In
any case, as you state, the GPL as applied to MediaWiki is already very
weakly copyleft, leaving us only the disadvantage of incompatibility with
non-GPL projects, with the advantages of copyleft non-existent for the
MediaWiki case.
Bryan
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