X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/4e54fa1144065b7ff99e88e6c61ff1fdcf6175c9..49647b51d04ea704ff00f872d2beb327595fdc6a:/doc/plugins/wmd/discussion.mdwn diff --git a/doc/plugins/wmd/discussion.mdwn b/doc/plugins/wmd/discussion.mdwn index b57ef4057..191004dc3 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/wmd/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/wmd/discussion.mdwn @@ -3,62 +3,11 @@ I've tried to retrieve the wmd-editor source tarball lately, but the site seems From what I've read on the Internet, wmd-editor is not (yet?) free software by itself, and its author has gone MIA. But it looks like somebody recently took the step to rewrite a wmd-clone under a saner license, see [[pagedown|http://code.google.com/p/pagedown/source/browse/]]. -Given all the above, what about upgrading this plugin to use pagedown instead of wmd? It seem a clear win to me... +Given all the above, what about upgrading this plugin to use pagedown instead of wmd? It seem a clear win to me... --(unsigned) -> AFAICS, pagedown is a modified version of WMD. Let's -> look at its license file: --[[Joey]] +> I have moved that conversation to the pagedown plugin todo [[todo/pagedown_plugin/discussion]] page, which now actually has an implementation now, and is free! --[[anarcat]] -
-A javascript port of Markdown, as used on Stack Overflow
-and the rest of Stack Exchange network.
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-Largely based on showdown.js by John Fraser (Attacklab).
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-Original Markdown Copyright (c) 2004-2005 John Gruber
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-Original Showdown code copyright (c) 2007 John Fraser
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-Modifications and bugfixes (c) 2009 Dana Robinson
-Modifications and bugfixes (c) 2009-2011 Stack Exchange Inc.
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-Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
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- -> Ok, so it says it's based on showdown. John Fraser wrote showdown and also -> WMD, which IIRC was built on top of showdown. (Showdown converts the -> markdown to html, and WMD adds the editor UI.) -> -> I can nowhere find a actual statement of the copyright of showdown or -> WMD. has a "MIT License" notice on it, -> but this is clearly just the license chosen when signing up at google -> code for the repo that would be used for a rewrite of the code, and the only thing -> said about the previous 1.0 release of WMD is "use it freely", which is not -> specific enough to be a grant of license, and is moreover not a free -> software license, as it does not cover distribution or modification. -> -> Which was all covered in the thread here, -> when StackOverflow decided to start working on pagedown. -> -> This thread does not give any indication that they ever managed to get -> a license grant for WMD/showdown. It frankly, does not inspire confidence -> that the people working on this care about the license. -> -> It would probably be pretty easy to adapt the ikiwiki wmd plugin -> to use pagedown. But without a clear and credible license, why? -> -> (Note that I have a wmd-new branch in my ikiwiki git repo that -> uses , which was an earlier -> version of pagedown (probably, not entirely clear).) -> -> An alternate alternative is markitup: -> It has a clear history and a credible license (MIT or GPL dual license). -> It's also easily extensible to other formats so could handle rst etc. -> It does not, however, have a markdown to html converter -- for -> previewing it has to talk to the server with AJAX. -> --[[Joey]] +Other conversations: >> I've got pagedown working on my personal site (simon.kisikew.org) but I'm not sure how >> I can inject the relevant <div>'s in the right place. They need to go **above**