I was talking with a friend in my logic class, and he was asking me how long I had been programming. I told him, and went on to mention some of the things I’ve done. I talked a bit about MediaWiki and the volunteer development work I did there. He asked me why I enjoyed [...]
Danny posted on his blog a piece about Fair Use within Wikipedia. While I don’t want to respond to the entire thing, he did raise one question that I feel deserves some mention: “And to any developers out there, would you allow any non-free components to be incorporated in the wiki-software as well, or can [...]
It is no secret that the works of the Wikimedia Foundation projects are licensed under a copyleft schema. By and large (with few exceptions, notably Wikinews), this is done by the GNU Free Documentation License, known by free content junkies as the GFDL. One of the requirements of the GFDL is that in order to [...]
