We will modify
our installation to make it
compliant.
Excellent! I'm noone official, but I've done a serious study of the
GFDL, etc. and discussed its implementation with RMS, so I have a pretty
good handle on what to do.
There are two primary obligations of a mirror/redistribution of the
Wikipedia content under the GFDL: rename it (that is, don't let visitors
think that they are seeing the Official Wikipedia),
Ok, can you tell me a little more about what is required in re-naming?
- I assume that we have to remove the Wikipedia logo for one
- Are we required/allowed to use the name Wikipedia within our naming of
it? (As I see you have suggested "InfoWrangler Wikipedia Mirror")
and add a "History" page.
No problem, we are happy to oblige with that.
It gets slightly more complicated if you make your
version of the site
editable; then you have to make sure that the changed source content is
regularly updated and readily available.
No, we don't wish to make our demo editable at this time. There may be a
reason to do that in the long term as we have a feature planned that would
allow previewing of relevant info (links) before an edit was
submitted. The aim being to assist the author to know what related
information already exists in Wikipedia before they submit new material.
We have of
course modified some of the PHP code of Wikipedia so that
appropriate calls are made to InfoWrangler Server when a page is
viewed/created/edited. This is currently being packaged and will be
released to the Wikipedia development team when its ready.
Excellent. Actually, as long as the InfoWrangler code is independent of
Wikipedia, the terms of the GPL only obligate you to share modifications
of the Wikipedia code if you ever sell/redistribute that code to third
parties--not if you simply *run* the modified code.
That is, we definitely welcome any improvements/extensions to the code
you make, but simply running a modified version of the Wikipedia code
puts you under no code-sharing obligations.
Understood. Since we have gone to the effort of performing the integration
and are benefiting from all the other work put into Wikipedia so far, we
thought that it might be a useful contribution to make to the project.
Langdon
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Managing Director
Object Positive
Sydney, Australia
Ph: + 61 2 9659 2344
Fx: + 61 2 9659 2355
http://www.infowrangler.com