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Originally Posted by pood
I got an site idea and involves an heavily modified mediawiki (which we'll be doing ourselves).
Is it legal to sell the site a couple years down the line even though we didn't write 100% of the code?
Mediawiki is a script developed for wikipedia. open source.
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did u read their gpl?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License
the right to run the program, for any desired purpose.
the right to study how the program works, and modify it. (Access to the source code is a precondition for this)
the right to redistribute copies.
the right to improve the program, and release the improvements to the public. (Access to the source code is a precondition for this)