"Michael Sha" sha@deas.harvard.edu wrote in message news:f142ff670708212238m1cdb1730ld149a04dc4990efe@mail.gmail.com...
Imagine a wiki focused on helping people understand how to invest. We've taken a big step in the right direction but need more amazing people to
help
us turn the vision into reality. Check us out: there are articles about
all
kinds of companies and also interesting concepts, trends, and investing ideas like the iPhone, Renewable Energy, Mobile phone usage in China, The Hurricane Season, and The Impact of Internet Advertising. And we've extended mediawiki in some pretty cool ways.
Point 8 in the terms of service[1] includes the line (emphasis mine):
"You may not modify, reproduce, distribute, create derivative works of, publicly display or in any way exploit, any of the content, SOFTWARE, and/or materials available on Wikinvest, in whole or in part, except as expressly provided in Nvest's policies and procedures made available via Wikinvest."
Isn't this a violation of the GPL for MediaWiki. Or perhaps it is referring to some other software (in which case clarification is probably required)?
In addition I found no mention that the site was powered by MediaWiki and that the software, including any modifications you have made, is available under the GPL. I am unsure whether this is a requirement, though - perhaps someone can clarify that.
Finally, there is a lot of help content that has been copied from Wikipedia, and aside from a 'thank you' on the contents page[2] there is no attribution. These pages need a clear link to the source article, and to the full GFDL text. Also, it should be noted that all edits made to these pages are also (by definition) licensed under the GFDL. If it would make things easier, there are some public domain help pages being developed at mediawiki.org [3], which aren't quite as good or as thorough, but which may be used without attribution.
- Mark Clements (HappyDog)
[1] http://www.wikinvest.com/site/Terms_of_Service [2] http://www.wikinvest.com/help/Contents [3] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Contents