Hi everyone,
* Can I, by any chance, have a wiki where part of the content belongs to GFDL like wikipedia; and the other part belongs to copyrighted licensed?
My wiki is going to carry both copyrighted documents by third parties, and documents under GFDL.
So I don't considerer my wiki a non-GFDL wiki. It is natural have a mixed copyright. And in certain point wikipedia will face that.
* Is there some way to link each page to its correspondent license? I was thinking in creating a namespace for copyrighted documents so that all pages under that namespace would carry a different license at the bottom. In this case, actually, I could use all http://creativecommons.org/license/ on my wiki in a per page basis!!! I will be happy.
I am not a lawyer, so excuse me if I am completely out of track:)
Thanks a lot, mauro.
-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Brion Vibber Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 4:43 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Downloadable MediaWiki documentation
Rick DeNatale wrote:
On 1/3/06, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
MediaWiki, alas, "ships" with a blank Help namespace. I'm hoping, myself, that we can at some point start shipping with content; alas, most of it needs to be rewritten and released under the GPL or a compatible license, so that it can be included with the software.
When I look at wikipedia, meta etc, they all seem to claim that the content is licensed under the GFDL. Is this really an issue?
GFDL isn't a problem for distributing a documentation package along with the software. (It's not *part of* the software. It would just be shipped with it, like a manual.)
It may be a problem for people wanting to *import and use* that documentation on their non-GFDL wikis. This is why there's been talk about making some doc pages that are explicitly public domain, so nobody has to worry about the basic help pages having a confusing license that mixes with their other content.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)