On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Alexander Berntsen <alexan...@plaimi.net> wrote:
>
> On 05/03/13 11:38, Wikipedia information team wrote:
> >>> All of the MediaWiki[1] code base that Wikipedia is licensed
> >>> under the GPL[2], including the JavaScript. Also included in
> >>> that is the freely-licensed (MIT) jQuery[3] library. However
> >>> some code is actually written by the invidual users, like
> >>> English Wikipedia's custom javascript[4], which is licensed as
> >>> CC-BY-SA-3.0 since all content pages are automatically licensed
> >>> that way[5].

Is that really the case? See e.g.:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Archive/2012/08#Does_Commons_only_accept_code_which_can_be_used_for_evil.3F

Helder

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