[Mediawiki-l] Please convince me to make my software open source

[Magnus Manske]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 4:45 PM, P. Mazart <pmazart at web.de> wrote:
> Hello Bernard,
>
> Am Montag, 18. Januar 2010 schrieb Bernard at bernardHulsman.nl:
>> We have build many extensions to improve the functionality of MediaWiki.
>
> Mediawiki is under the GPL, so if you have done any changes to MW
> you will have to release them under the GPL, too.

If it's a new extension you developed yourself, I sincerely doubt
you'll have to release them under GPL. Only if you modify an existing
GPL extension, or the core code.

Cheers,
Magnus