Sajith Vimukthi wrote:
I am planning to develop a new Open Source project keeping mediawiki as the
baseline
Nobody else said this explicitly, so
FYI Sajith, MediaWiki has a very powerful third-party plug-in system
(extensions). Maybe instead of modifying MediaWiki, you could just
They are using MediaWiki for their support site, which is perfectly OK.
However, if they took the MediaWiki source code, closed it, and tried to
sell it, that wouldn't.
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 3:25 AM, Huib Laurens sterke...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I know that the software we use for our website
Hi,
I know that the software we use for our website is payed (www.whmcs.com)
and you can add a wiki module. This module doesn't cost any extra money,
but you can grap a add-on that costs money what will tune the Wiki CSS into
your websites CSS (pretty cool do!)
But this is just MediaWiki:
Den 30-12-2011 05:02, Tim Starling skrev:
You can modify GPL software for private use. That clause only kicks in
when you distribute or publish the work, so you're generally OK if
you're just using it within a single company. Maybe that's what Huib
meant by closed source.
distribute or
If you take a open source proyect, and develop another open source
proyect based on it, you are forking. You must continue with the same
license the original authors used. This is a must, if you can't
convince all the original authors to allow you to use a different
license (hard if theres a lot
- Original Message -
From: Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org
On 30/12/11 08:30, Dan Collins wrote:
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Huib Laurens sterke...@gmail.com
wrote:
It doesn't need to be compatible or open-source right?
GPL 2.0 section 2 b:
b) You must cause any
Huib Laurens sterke...@gmail.com writes:
I know a lot of closed source projects that use MediaWiki and just
leave a note that part is under license xxx by authors xxx.
???
Ok, so what projects are those? I don't have any interest in suing
people (I don't think my small contribution to
On 30/12/11 08:30, Dan Collins wrote:
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Huib Laurens sterke...@gmail.com wrote:
It doesn't need to be compatible or open-source right?
GPL 2.0 section 2 b:
b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in
whole or in part contains or is
MediaWiki is open source. The license is the GPL version 2. If you use
the GPL or a compatible license for your project, then everything should
be okay.
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses
On 12/28/11 10:31 PM, Sajith Vimukthi wrote:
Hello All,
I am
It doesn't need to be compatible or open-source right?
I know a lot of closed source projects that use MediaWiki and just leave a
note that part is under license xxx by authors xxx.
Best,
Huib
2011/12/29 Neil Kandalgaonkar ne...@wikimedia.org
MediaWiki is open source. The license is the
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Huib Laurens sterke...@gmail.com wrote:
It doesn't need to be compatible or open-source right?
GPL 2.0 section 2 b:
b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in
whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part
thereof,
Ok, that start sueing people, so we don't need a fundraiser next year ;-)
Best,
Huib
2011/12/29 Dan Collins en.wp.s...@gmail.com
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Huib Laurens sterke...@gmail.com wrote:
It doesn't need to be compatible or open-source right?
GPL 2.0 section 2 b:
b) You
Hello All,
I am planning to develop a new Open Source project keeping mediawiki as the
baseline. I wonder how the liciening policy of mediawiki will affect my
intention. Could somebody help me on whether it is possible to develop my
own app using mediawiki and distribute it as an opensource
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