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So far I can only find that the Client and Server code, and related art and graphics are under the GPL license. Nowhere is there a license for wiki-content and documents.

If this is the case then, being as the server is in Poland that falls under the EUCD which is atrocious, and therefore no one can edit any Wiki pages unless they themselves made it.

Please specify a license if there is one for Wiki articles. This seems like a minor technicality, but it matters!

You'd need to get the consent of all authors before you could do that

I thought you were going to explain to me how to do this. So far I've looked at it and I wouldn't know what to put in the relevant variables.

Does somebody have a link to where it says GFDL is compatible with the GPL? If I search for those libraries I get mainly concerns about their incompatibility. In any case we need to put the content under a license that it compatible with the GPL.

Shaggy: About authors consent, we will simple by assuming none of the authors really cares, since nobody has ever brought up this issue but everybody has been happily editing wiki pages that they did not hold any copyright on and had no license to. The content is thus technically already illegally formed but practically we just need to pick a license and get it over with.

Bjørn wrote:Shaggy: About authors consent, we will simple by assuming none of the authors really cares, since nobody has ever brought up this issue but everybody has been happily editing wiki pages that they did not hold any copyright on and had no license to. The content is thus technically already illegally formed but practically we just need to pick a license and get it over with.

Seems a very cavalier attitude to take regarding the law.

Shaggy wrote:Seems a very cavalier attitude to take regarding the law.

Yep, try me, but I think we're all better off this way.

The content of the wiki is now officially under the GFDL. Anybody who has a copyright on some part of the wiki and has a problem with this can feel free to ask me for immediate permanent removal of the relevant content.

I want to take an image from http://wiki.themanaworld.org/index.php/Geography and make in-game graphics for a map of the world hanging on the wall of an inn or ship's cabin.

So I've got a problem with the wiki being under the GFDL. Not one of having my content under either license, but one with moving content between game and wiki.
Going the other way seems problematic too.

As an author you have the right to dual license your work. GFDL and GPL are compatable. Btw - any content you post in the development forums is considered a donation and stuck under the GPL.