On 15/12/2007, joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu wrote:
You can use MediaWiki with any license you want. MediaWiki is itself GFDL but things made with MediaWiki are not. If you edited the MediaWiki software the GFDL would inherit to that but not if you write a document with it.
The software itself is actually GPL, not GFDL. But you would only have to distribute your changes if you copy your modified version (all the powers of the GPL come from copyright) for distribution outside the company. (You can put it on a public-facing website without triggering this.)
A large variety of licenses are used for various projects. The English Wikinews for example uses Creative Commons Attribution 2.5. And Conservapedia uses a unique one http://www.conservapedia.com/Conservapedia:Copyright (I love how even on that page they still feel a need to compare themselves to Wikipedia. They have just a tiny obsession with us it seems). Anyways, the point is that you can use MediaWiki without having to worry about the GFDL.
yep :-)
- d.