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 <[email protected]> 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) > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api >
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