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)