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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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When I was working with the company that released Python 2.0, we ran into this problem frequently. Companies such as Microsoft, Disney, Red Hat, Google, and others wanted to incorporate Python into their offerings, but weren't sure it would be GPL-compatible. If you know anything about Jimmy, you'll know that he's all about the "greater good" (just look at Bomis, haha). As long as you're not doing something overtly evil, most things are "fair game." If you'd like, I can open a dialogue between you and the people over there, but I do not anticipate any complications with this at all.
Feel free to ICQ me to talk over the finer points of GPL compliance, etc. I can put you into touch with Richard Stallman if need be, as well. I'm sure he'd be more than happy to clear up any issues you might have -- he was very helpful to me and the Python guys when we were trying to break out of an overly restrictive license .. he even signed a shirt for me, haha.