Forum:GPL licensed wiki

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When I edit a page the text below the edit box says that all content contributed to the Freeciv wiki "are considered to be released under the GNU General Public License", I do believe that it is wikia policy that all wikis use the GFDL or a pre-approved Creative Commons license, unless given a special exception from Wikia. Tcrow777 20:10, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

We got this special exception, since we migrated a wiki licensed under the GPL here. See Freeciv:Copyrights. --Hima 22:55, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

It says that I cannot copy text from Wikipedia, then what is Template:Wikipedia for? I have copied some text from Wikipedia with Template:Wikipedia, will you have to delete those contributions? Why GNU GPL v2? Tcrow777 01:22, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

I honestly don't know the legal details. Let's just not copy anything more directly from the 'pedia. --Hima 11:55, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Ah, and the reason we use GPL2 is because Freeciv's code and its contents are under this license, making it simple to reuse code and images here on the wiki. --Hima 11:56, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

It just says "GNU General Public License" with no version number, but it links to version 3, making the wiki incompatible with the Freeciv application which is under version 2, if this is a typo it should be fixed. Tcrow777 ^(Talk) 20:22, 31 October 2007 (UTC)