Topic on Project:Village Pump

Hi, I need help as I am planning to use media wiki commercially and installed in our premises. Before making live wanted to check few things

1. As this is open source code and installed at our premises. Do we need to take care any copyrights things?
2. All published content by me will have copyrights with us only. is this correct? there any no claim from media wiki on published contents.

Thanks for your help

Yes, you can use MediaWiki with any purpose. MediaWiki is free software, however you can choose the license terms of the content you add to the wiki, so the content can be copyrighted. During the installation process you can choose from some licenses but you can tune it up setting $wgRightsText variable and others.

Thanks for response, So if I publish my content in our mediawiki (wiki.abc.com) that will be copyrighted to my company only. is this correct? (if yes then can you please share any link which i can present to my company) also can you please help me to select the proper copyright and license options?

Thanks for you help

How exactly copyrights work varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction and context to context. For instance, your employer may have some kind of agreement with you that they own the copyright on works that you create while performing your job or if you are creating a work for the United States government it will almost always be in the public domain, etc. Either way, using MediaWiki is free software—we do not in any way own or control what you do with the software or create with it. No one here can tell you how to use this or what you are allowed to do other than misrepresenting the trademarks of the Wikimedia Foundation.

You may want to look over Project:General_disclaimer, Download, and wmf:Terms_of_Use. But the short version is: no one here (me, the Wikimedia Foundation, Jimmy Wales) in any way owns anything you create with this software or has any control over it once you decide to run it.

Good point.