On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:40 PM, Platonides
<platonides(a)gmail.com
<mailto:platonides@gmail.com>> wrote:
Trond Olsen wrote:
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?
Regards,
Trond Olsen.
If you're using the mediawiki api internally (running it on the server),
you're linking to the program and the viric clause applies. If you're
using a different client, it's an inter-process comunication, thus the
client doesn't need to be gpl.
Anyway, a gpl client wouldn't hurt in any way your project (it could
even support it).
IANAL, don't take my word on it, and so on.
The setup is: Wiki is run on the same server (domain) where the
web-client (javascript+flash) is distributed from. The web-client uses
MediaWiki more like a database-service (and possible for
html-generation). As for license, I plan on using the zlib-license since
it's not as restrictive as GPL in terms of commercial use, hence why I
would like to know how the MediaWiki GPL affects the web-client application.
Trond.
My advice would be to contact a lawyer. This is a rather complicated
situation, and a trained professional will be far more capable of giving
you an authoritative answer than a bunch of a techies on a mailing list.
That said, my interpretation is that MediaWiki is being used as a
primary component of your software in this case, and this direct
dependency implies to me that your software is a derivative work of
MediaWiki and therefore must be released under a GPL license.
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Daniel Cannon (AmiDaniel)
cannon.danielc(a)gmail.com
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