[Mediawiki-l] Downloadable MediaWiki documentation

[Mauro do Carmo]

Hi everyone,

* Can I, by any chance, have a wiki where part of the content belongs to
GFDL like wikipedia; and the other part belongs to copyrighted licensed? 

My wiki is going to carry both copyrighted documents by third parties, and
documents under GFDL.

So I don't considerer my wiki a non-GFDL wiki. It is natural have a mixed
copyright. And in certain point wikipedia will face that.

* Is there some way to link each page to its correspondent license? I was
thinking in creating a namespace for copyrighted documents so that all pages
under that namespace would carry a different license at the bottom. In this
case, actually, I could use all http://creativecommons.org/license/ on my
wiki in a per page basis!!! I will be happy.

I am not a lawyer, so excuse me if I am completely out of track:)

Thanks a lot, mauro.


-----Original Message-----
From: mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org
[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Brion Vibber
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 4:43 PM
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Downloadable MediaWiki documentation

Rick DeNatale wrote:
> On 1/3/06, Rob Church <robchur at gmail.com> wrote:
>> MediaWiki, alas, "ships" with a blank Help namespace. I'm hoping,
>> myself, that we can at some point start shipping with content; alas,
>> most of it needs to be rewritten and released under the GPL or a
>> compatible license, so that it can be included with the software.
> 
> When I look at wikipedia, meta etc, they all seem to claim that the
> content is licensed under the GFDL.  Is this really an issue?

GFDL isn't a problem for distributing a documentation package along with the
software. (It's not *part of* the software. It would just be shipped with
it,
like a manual.)

It may be a problem for people wanting to *import and use* that
documentation on
their non-GFDL wikis. This is why there's been talk about making some doc
pages
that are explicitly public domain, so nobody has to worry about the basic
help
pages having a confusing license that mixes with their other content.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)


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