On 1/3/06, Rob Church <robchur(a)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 @