The GPLv3 is not more restrictive.
As I mentioned, if anything it’s more permissive, since it is compatible with more
licenses, and because it allows distributors to add some certain additional clauses to the
license at their discretion. If a developer wants to release their personal code under the
Apache 2.0 license, they can do so and still contribute to MediaWiki. Or if a distributor
wants to offer their own warranty on MediaWiki, they can.
Maybe it was a little presumptuous of me to bring up AGPL, because I’ll admit I even have
bad feelings about it, especially considering the whole security patch issue.
However, if somebody would like to offer up an actual reason for why upgrading from v2 to
v3 is a bad idea, I’m all ears.
(Also, some relevant links, it seems RESTBase is currently under AGPL, so we may
eventually be enveloped by it anyway:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T78212.)
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Tyler Romeo
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On February 8, 2015 at 10:40:03, Thomas Mulhall (thomasmulhall410(a)yahoo.com) wrote:
GPLv3 is not a simple upgrade, it is merely a switch to a more
restrictive license. It is quite unlikely to happen.
Each time the subject has been raised, we ended up with a license flame
war and no strong arguments to switch.