On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Domas Mituzas <midom.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > Which of course allows me to fork the thread and ask why does MediaWiki have > to be GPL licensed.
Because all it takes is one developer with substantial contributions who doesn't want to relicense, and then you have to rewrite all their contributions and everything based on their contributions if you want to change the license. That's what a viral license is, after all. Of course, an independent component could be non-GPL-licensed, if it was written from scratch. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
