These are prompted by Gerrit review comments, but it seems like a hidden
place to discuss them.
The specific background:
A task I am on uses an external library licensed under the Apache2.0
license. Mediawiki core is shipped under a GPL2 license, so I'm guessing
that is the default licence fondation work is released under.
According to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_License#GPL_compatibilityApache
licenses are compatible with GPL3 but not GPL2.
The questions:
Is my assumption that by default we put everything under GPL2 right?
Are other FS/OSS licences OK to use?
How paranoid are we? ie do we make a good faith effort at getting it right,
or do we refer questions to internal counsel for a slower but safer answer?
In this case my inclination is to licence the whole extension (containing
the external library) as Apache2.0 but I'm happy to defer to normal process
if there is one.
Thanks,
Luke Welling