[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #14727: @license tag removal in xmlrpc.php

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#14727: @license tag removal in xmlrpc.php
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 Reporter:  hakre         |       Owner:                 
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new            
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General       |     Version:  3.0.1          
 Severity:  normal        |    Keywords:  has-patch      
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 File {{{/xmlrpc.php}}} is labeled as being GPL v2 licensed. This is
 incompatible to our license (broken).

 The file/code as been labeled as "GPL v2" in [7991] 25 May 2008. It was
 not tagged with any specific license before that date.

 The file was added in [1348] by michelvaldrighi (a projects developer) 23
 May 2004. The code in {{{//xmlrpc.php}}} extends code of Third-Party-Code
 in the IXR Package that just had been added in [1346] shortly before.

 The adding of the PHPdoc @license tag in [7991] / #7037 was wrong because
 of this: if the code is by a project contributor, it must have been under
 the projects license (naming GPL v2 here would break that so it can not be
 GPL v2) or it is considered a derivate of the added code (because it
 extends from it), but then it must have been under the same license as the
 IXR class which is currently known not to be GPL v2.

 I'm just for reverting leaving all other considerations aside.

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