aran at organicdesign
May 12, 2008, 5:05 PM
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Re: [MediaWiki-CVS] SVN: [34602] trunk/phase3/includes/DatabaseMssql.php
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No problem, I've removed the licence info, it was just like that because
the code was started in our wiki and inherited the same info we have on
other code there.
Simetrical wrote:
> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Brion Vibber <brion[at]wikimedia.org> wrote:
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>> 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?
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> 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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