"Simetrical" <Simetrical+wikitech(a)gmail.com>
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On 9/5/06, Travis Derouin <travis(a)wikihow.com>
wrote:
I hadn't
thought that far ahead! What license are Wikipedia extensions
usually released with? GPL?
All MediaWiki extensions have to be GPLd. Possibly altogether, but
definitely if you want them on SVN/Wikimedia projects. AFAIK.
Actually, I'm not sure that's true. So long as your extension doesn't
include any MW (or other GPL) code then it can be distributed under whatever
license you like. If you distribute the extension _with_ MediaWiki, then I
imagine that changes things and GPL must be used, but an independent
distribution that only consists of your own code can surely use any license,
even though you also need to install MediaWiki for it to be of any use.
Of course, if you want the code to be available in MediaWiki SVN then it
will need to be GPL, although I think this is more a matter of policy than a
legal requirement (so long as the above conditions remain true).
But then, ianal...
- Mark Clements (HappyDog)