Just to
clarify, all new documentation regarding MediaWiki should be added
to
mediawiki.org NOT
meta.wikimedia.org.
There are still a lot of old pages on meta that are waiting to be
transwikid, and these should still be edited on meta (rather than
duplicating content) but any new pages should be created at
mw.org.
Someone decided that most of
mediawiki.org should be public domain instead
of GFDL, thereby making any large scale movement of text from meta impossible.
So create
gfdl.mediawiki.org, move or copy all the content from
mediawiki.org to
gfdl.mediawiki.org, and then merge in MediaWiki docs from
meta.wikimedia.org.
But if we're going to talk about licenses, could we maybe please consider licensing
gfdl.mediawiki.org (and/or MediaWiki docs on
meta.wikimedia.org) under the GPL too,
and allowing any documentation distributed with MediaWiki to be licensed under the
GFDL (as well as the GPL). That way documentation could be freely copied backwards
and forwards between the two (something that I suspect is sometimes happening
already, but which is probably legally a bit dubious - but, of course,
"I Am Not A Lawyer"). That way the code's documentation and all the
documentation
about the code would be under compatible licenses (which is not currently the case
- ref:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFDL#GPL_incompatible_in_both_directions )
-- All the best,
Nick.