hey all,
I've been looking (cross-eyed) at the number of different licensing
schemes out there for my wiki (or series of wikis, based off of mediawiki),
and have pretty much narrowed it down to two:
1) GNU Free Documentation License
2) Free BSD Documentation License
My primary intent for my wiki is to use it as a springboard for others
to either cite in publications up-to and/or including text passages,
as long as acknowlegment of this fact is given in the printed or non-printed
work.
Both seem to fit the bill pretty well, but the GNU FDL seems to have a
lot more 'strings attached' which I'm not particularly fond of - but
on the other hand, wikipedia itself uses the GNU FDL, so the following
questions come to mind. If I used the FreeBSD documentation license:
1) would I be able to encorporate GNU FDL content as long as
citations were given?
2) would this prevent said wiki being eventually merged with
mediawiki (under, say wikibooks, or in its own category)?
I see that at 'http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html' they
list the Free BSD license as 'compatible' with the GPL, but I'm
not exactly sure what that means...
Ed