X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/ed48b28c97cad87e14566b9979caa437d4a5368f..6d95bd7e026c95a259c63bf3da84f1b5d64fba7d:/doc/plugins/wmd/discussion.mdwn diff --git a/doc/plugins/wmd/discussion.mdwn b/doc/plugins/wmd/discussion.mdwn index ec8f02e4d..b57ef4057 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/wmd/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/wmd/discussion.mdwn @@ -4,3 +4,70 @@ From what I've read on the Internet, wmd-editor is not (yet?) free software by i 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... + +> AFAICS, pagedown is a modified version of WMD. Let's +> look at its license file: --[[Joey]] + +
+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).
+
+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
+copy [...]
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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]] + +>> 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** +>> the editing <textarea> . (Too bad about the licensing, it's rather nice.) +>> I had to do one minor change to it to have it inject itself into the page properly, +>> and that was to make this change in `Markdown.Editor.js`: +>> +>> `this.input = doc.getElementById("editcontent" + postfix);` +>> +>> on line 247. --[[simonraven]] + +>>> Well, I re-figured out that I needed a TMPL_VAR FOO in the template(s). --[[simonraven]]