They are using MediaWiki for their support site, which is perfectly OK. However, if they took the MediaWiki source code, closed it, and tried to sell it, that wouldn't.
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 3:25 AM, Huib Laurens sterkebak@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I know that the software we use for our website is payed (www.whmcs.com) and you can add a "wiki" module. This module doesn't cost any extra money, but you can grap a add-on that costs money what will tune the Wiki CSS into your websites CSS (pretty cool do!)
But this is just MediaWiki: http://docs.whmcs.com/Special:Version And the payed addon is a encrypte source code..
Best,
Huib
2011/12/30 Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org
On 30/12/11 08:30, Dan Collins wrote:
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Huib Laurens sterkebak@gmail.com
wrote:
It doesn't need to be compatible or open-source right?
GPL 2.0 section 2 b:
b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License.
You can modify GPL software for private use. That clause only kicks in when you "distribute or publish" the work, so you're generally OK if you're just using it within a single company. Maybe that's what Huib meant by "closed source".
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