Mailing List Archive: GPL violation (bilibili)

Dear MW developers,

I recently found a wiki farm owned by bilibili.com (one of the largest online video and game company) called "BWIKI" which is apparently using a set of heavily modified MW environment. However, it doesn't seem to be open-sourced, which is a obvious GPL violation.

I tried to contact them but, so far, I haven't received an reply.

Although I am not a MW contributor, I think it is my duty to report this illegal action.

Thanks for developing such a useful software.

Dianlaing233

URL: https://wiki.biligame.com/wiki/
Special:Version: https://wiki.biligame.com/wiki/Special:Version
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Note, well i find it distatsteful that they didn't open source thier stuff,
its not a GPL violation unless they were also distributing the code (google
AGPL vs GPL)

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Brian

On Wednesday, July 14, 2021, dianliang233--- via MediaWiki-l <
mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Dear MW developers,
>
> I recently found a wiki farm owned by bilibili.com (one of the largest
> online video and game company) called "BWIKI" which is apparently using a
> set of heavily modified MW environment. However, it doesn't seem to be
> open-sourced, which is a obvious GPL violation.
>
> I tried to contact them but, so far, I haven't received an reply.
>
> Although I am not a MW contributor, I think it is my duty to report this
> illegal action.
>
> Thanks for developing such a useful software.
>
> Dianlaing233
>
> URL: https://wiki.biligame.com/wiki/
> Special:Version: https://wiki.biligame.com/wiki/Special:Version
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