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May 12, 2008, 5:02 PM
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Re: [MediaWiki-CVS] SVN: [34602] trunk/phase3/includes/DatabaseMssql.php
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On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Brion Vibber <brion[at]wikimedia.org> wrote:
> nad[at]svn.wikimedia.org wrote:
> > + * This script is the MSSQL Server database abstraction layer
> > + * - Licenced under LGPL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html)
> > + * - Author: [http://www.organicdesign.co.nz/nad User:Nad]
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> Hrm...
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> What version LGPL? Are there any compatibility issues between GPLv2 and
> LGPL mystery version?
Regardless, certainly MediaWiki as a whole must still be distributed
only under the GPL, and it's confusing at best to say otherwise in
some files. If Nad wants to release this under the LGPL (for, I
guess, the unlikely event that someone wants to rip it out of
MediaWiki and incorporate it into their own project), that's fine, but
as a matter of policy it seems like a good idea to have the same
license text in all files in the core project.
There's also the question of what happens if some later contributor to
the file doesn't want to release their changes under the LGPL, only
the GPL: would we be fine with that? I'd assume so, in which case the
license for the file will have to change at that point anyway.
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