On 15/12/2007, joshua.zelinsky(a)yale.edu <joshua.zelinsky(a)yale.edu> wrote:
You can use MediaWiki with any license you want.
MediaWiki is itself GFDL but
things made with MediaWiki are not. If you edited the MediaWiki software the
GFDL would inherit to that but not if you write a document with it.
The software itself is actually GPL, not GFDL. But you would only have
to distribute your changes if you copy your modified version (all the
powers of the GPL come from copyright) for distribution outside the
company. (You can put it on a public-facing website without triggering
this.)
A large
variety of licenses are used for various projects. The English Wikinews for
example uses Creative Commons Attribution 2.5. And Conservapedia uses a unique
one
http://www.conservapedia.com/Conservapedia:Copyright
(I love how even on that page they still feel a need to compare themselves to
Wikipedia. They have just a tiny obsession with us it seems). Anyways, the
point is that you can use MediaWiki without having to worry about the GFDL.
yep :-)
- d.