> Trond Olsen schreef:

>
>
> > Hi,
>  >
>  > I have one question in concerning the GPL-license in regard to a
>  > web-application using the MediaWiki API for querying XML (and possible
>  > other extensions). I'm unsure if the GPL-license will affect the
>  > client program and would like to ask if anyone would care to comment?
>  >

>  You mean to ask whether the fact that the articles are GPLed will
>  necessitate the client to be GPLed too? I'm pretty sure it doesn't. For
>  instance, the MediaWiki software is GPLed, which affects changing it and
>  distributing it, but not *using* it: it's perfectly OK to use MediaWiki
>  to manage non-GPL content (in fact, many non-Wikimedia wikis use a
>  Creative Commons license). In much the same way, it's OK for non-GPL
>  programs to query the (GPLed) API.


Note, however, that if the data you get from the API is derived from
GFDL articles, as in the case of Wikipedia, that this data is also
under the GFDL.

Magnus