Wouldn't it just be safer to slap the GPL license notice on the API interface wiki-page since no one actually knows how it applies? With the API you can essentially wrap MediaWiki into your own application and extend onwards from there.
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Roan Kattouw <[email protected]> wrote: > Trond Olsen schreef: > > 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? > By finding someone who actually has a clue ;) > > Most of us programmers aren't lawyers and are just sharing their best > guess. If you can get someone with legal expertise to clear up the > issue, feel free to add it to the docs at MW.org (it's a wiki, so anyone > can edit it). > > Roan Kattouw (Catrope) > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api >
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