On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Brion Vibber<brion(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On 8/5/09 11:23 AM, Istvan Soos wrote:
Hi,
I would like to ask legal advice and some parts of the GPL is not clear for me.
The GPL does not apply to any content on Wiktionary.
GPL (GNU General Public License) is a software license; the MediaWiki
software which the Wiktionary web site runs on is published under the
GPL license.
Wiktionary's content has its own licensing.
You should probably start with:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Thanks for the clarification!
I've referred to GPL because the dictionaries in question are mostly
GPL, and GFDL has essentially the same philosophy, hasn't it? Anyway,
this new CC license seems to be more re-use friendly for me, at least
the linked page gives a very clear idea how it should be treated.
Thanks,
Istvan