I'm unsure of how the governance of MediaWiki works, but is it possible to
make these kind of questions explicit on the
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API in terms of licensing? For example, if you
use the MediaWiki in such or such way, the GPL-license apply etc? I found I
had asked this question a year ago (yeah, I'm working slowly) and I got some
conflicting answers.
How would I go about in making such a request?
Regards,
Trond Olsen.
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:15 PM, Roan Kattouw <roan.kattouw(a)home.nl> wrote:
Trond Olsen schreef:
Hi,
I'm doing some experimentation with a webapp and thought the online API
could be a good way to deliver documentation to the users. Not all of my
webapp is open-source though, so how does the GPL license of the original
source-code when you're using MediaWiki as a service?
It doesn't, or at
least not in the way you're getting at. The fact that
MediaWiki is GPLed does not impose any restrictions on the content you
put in it or on the clients you use to get that content. To be more
specific: it's OK to use a non-GPLed application to pull data from the API.
What you do need to keep in mind, though, is that the content you're
serving may be covered by a license, which you'll have to respect. Of
course, if the content is yours, that's not a problem.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)
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