[Mediawiki-l] Mediawiki license

[Rowan Collins]

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:34:18 -0000 (GMT), Paul Scruby <wiki at scruby.com> wrote:

> However, I am confused because the
> 'edit' tab of my new wiki states that anything contributed to my wiki is
> under the terms of the GFDL.  
[...]
> In otherwords do the GFDL terms of mediawiki's license apply to all any
> content that is added any mediawiki wiki, or is this statement included
> for mediawiki's in the public domain such as wikimedia's wikipedia?

Neither. The licensing terms under which you publish your own content
on your own website are entirely up to you, and using MediaWiki to
develop that content doesn't affect its licensing status in any way.
The message you are seeing is simply the default setting because
MediaWiki originated running projects like Wikipedia which are under
the GFDL; you can change it to say whatever you like - just look for
it in [[Special:Allmessages]], and change the appropriate
[[MediaWiki:...]] page. As the site administrator, this message *from*
you, not *to* you.

-- 
Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]