hey all,
I've been looking (cross-eyed) at the number of different licensing schemes out there for my wiki (or series of wikis, based off of mediawiki), and have pretty much narrowed it down to two:
1) GNU Free Documentation License 2) Free BSD Documentation License
My primary intent for my wiki is to use it as a springboard for others to either cite in publications up-to and/or including text passages, as long as acknowlegment of this fact is given in the printed or non-printed work.
Both seem to fit the bill pretty well, but the GNU FDL seems to have a lot more 'strings attached' which I'm not particularly fond of - but on the other hand, wikipedia itself uses the GNU FDL, so the following questions come to mind. If I used the FreeBSD documentation license:
1) would I be able to encorporate GNU FDL content as long as citations were given?
2) would this prevent said wiki being eventually merged with mediawiki (under, say wikibooks, or in its own category)?
I see that at 'http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html' they list the Free BSD license as 'compatible' with the GPL, but I'm not exactly sure what that means...
Ed