-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Trond Olsen wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:40 PM, Platonides <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Trond Olsen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have one question in concerning the GPL-license in regard to a > > web-application using the MediaWiki API for querying XML (and possible > > other extensions). I'm unsure if the GPL-license will affect the > client > > program and would like to ask if anyone would care to comment? > > > > Regards, > > Trond Olsen. > > If you're using the mediawiki api internally (running it on the server), > you're linking to the program and the viric clause applies. If you're > using a different client, it's an inter-process comunication, thus the > client doesn't need to be gpl. > Anyway, a gpl client wouldn't hurt in any way your project (it could > even support it). > > IANAL, don't take my word on it, and so on. > > > The setup is: Wiki is run on the same server (domain) where the > web-client (javascript+flash) is distributed from. The web-client uses > MediaWiki more like a database-service (and possible for > html-generation). As for license, I plan on using the zlib-license since > it's not as restrictive as GPL in terms of commercial use, hence why I > would like to know how the MediaWiki GPL affects the web-client application. > > Trond.
My advice would be to contact a lawyer. This is a rather complicated situation, and a trained professional will be far more capable of giving you an authoritative answer than a bunch of a techies on a mailing list. That said, my interpretation is that MediaWiki is being used as a primary component of your software in this case, and this direct dependency implies to me that your software is a derivative work of MediaWiki and therefore must be released under a GPL license. - -- Daniel Cannon (AmiDaniel) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIGJmVFRAT5u/mSaMRAv1oAJ0WzJc4ppEyaQXtNgiNueFPxvegDwCdHqJ1 thKxv4FlkUOZbVEn4MuRS38= =h2p9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
