Hello,
well, I don't know where to address this to, so I address it to this mailing list in the hope that it will not be entirely wrong.
As I'm going to write some converter for wiki markup, I need a way to interprete quotes ('). As this is something really not trivial, I thought of copying the function doQuotes from the mediawiki software.
The Problem is the Licence: the function is licenced under the GPL, this means, that my 'derivative work' has to be licenced under the GPL, too.
Well, I thought of publishing the source code, too, but I'm more a fan of the Creative Commons licences (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/de/ in this case, to be precise). But this creates trouble with the GPL, which makes it impossible to use the CC licence.
Does someone know a solution of this problem?
Regards, Eckhart
Eckhart Wörner wrote: [snip]
The Problem is the Licence: the function is licenced under the GPL, this means, that my 'derivative work' has to be licenced under the GPL, too.
That's right -- it's a "share-alike" license.
Well, I thought of publishing the source code, too, but I'm more a fan of the Creative Commons licences (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/de/ in this case, to be precise). But this creates trouble with the GPL, which makes it impossible to use the CC licence.
Creative Commons licenses aren't really meant for code. Please see the FAQ: http://creativecommons.org/faq#faq_entry_3646
"Can I use a Creative Commons license for software?
In theory, yes, but it is not in your best interest. We strongly encourage you to use one of the very good software licenses available today. (The Free Software Foundation and the Open Source Initiative stand out as resources for such licenses.) Unlike our licenses -- which do not make mention of source or object code -- these existing licenses were designed specifically for use with software."
CC has a license discussion list which might be a better place to ask these kinds of licensing questions: http://creativecommons.org/discuss
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Hello Brion,
Brion Vibber schrieb:
Creative Commons licenses aren't really meant for code. Please see the FAQ: http://creativecommons.org/faq#faq_entry_3646
Well, I didn't see this before.
In this case, I will use the GPL, of course.
Eckhart
If you don't write the converter for its own sake, you might want to participate in the current efforts to set up a wiki-to-XML parser. You can then import XML into your application, which will be a lot easier than any converter.
Magnus
Eckhart Wörner wrote:
Hello Brion,
Brion Vibber schrieb:
Creative Commons licenses aren't really meant for code. Please see the FAQ: http://creativecommons.org/faq#faq_entry_3646
Well, I didn't see this before.
In this case, I will use the GPL, of course.
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Hello Magnus,
Magnus Manske schrieb:
If you don't write the converter for its own sake, you might want to participate in the current efforts to set up a wiki-to-XML parser. You can then import XML into your application, which will be a lot easier than any converter.
Well, I think I'd better present my idea. My idea was an XUL [1] web application which gets the wiki markup from the Wikipedia server and does a transformation to XML. It then displays the XML using XSL. The idea - i call it WikiFox although it should also run under all other browsers that use Gecko layout engine [2] - requires a working wiki-to-XML-converter written in JavaScript. There are also some other problems I am confronted with at the moment - see [3].
Eckhart
PS: I just noticed that I have sent this message to Magnus, not to the list. Why is there suddenly no Reply-To header in Magnus's message?
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