Wiki page for API
zwei.9073:
I have started wiki page on official wiki:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/API
Cliff Spradlin.3512:
Hi,
Could you please update the wiki with the current license information and link to the API documentation thread as the official version of the license for now?
The wiki may well be the best home for the API documentation, but lets do that one step at a time.
Felix Omni.3829:
Are you requesting that the wiki article be changed to point to the forum thread instead of containing any actual information?
Crimsony.2514:
I believe he’s requesting that the wiki page just include a note that the official license terms are here https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/community/api/API-Documentation/first#post2028044, along with a link. Not that there not be a wiki page at all.
zwei.9073:
Hi,
Could you please update the wiki with the current license information and link to the API documentation thread as the official version of the license for now?
The wiki may well be the best home for the API documentation, but lets do that one step at a time.
Done and done.
Killer Rhino.6794:
zwei++, thanks!
abasedfear.6051:
Not a necessary addition…
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Guild_Wars_2_Wiki:Copyrights
This page is linked at the bottom of every wiki page and states that any content obtained from Guild Wars 2, its web sites, etc. can potentially be found on the wiki, going on to say that the rights, title, and interest in and to this content remains with ArenaNet or NCsoft, as applicable, and not pursuant to the wiki’s GFDL. As such, the license was more than covered.
TimeBomb.3427:
Not a necessary addition…
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Guild_Wars_2_Wiki:Copyrights
This page is linked at the bottom of every wiki page and states that any content obtained from Guild Wars 2, its web sites, etc. can potentially be found on the wiki, going on to say that the rights, title, and interest in and to this content remains with ArenaNet or NCsoft, as applicable, and not pursuant to the wiki’s GFDL. As such, the license was more than covered.
While the copyright does indeed cover the contents of the wiki article, it is important to note that the API terms, as described in the stickied API Documentation thread in this forum section, are more detailed and thus cover more than what the wiki copyright covers. For example, the API license has details about how you may and may not use the API. “you may use the API’s to make commercial products so long as they are otherwise compliant and do not compete with ArenaNet”
What (I infer) this sentence means is that you can, for example, create a mobile application that uses the GW2 API and charge money for it, thus making a profit, assuming you are compliant with all mentioned licenses, terms, agreements, etc as described by the API terms.
Felix Omni.3829:
TimeBomb is correct; the wiki license is not the same as the API license and that should be made clear. That being said, there’s no reason to have the full text of the licensing on the wiki article if we’re just linking to it on the forums, so I cleaned it up a bit.
As a wiki administrator, I’d like to request that any further discussion of the API article take place on its talk page on the wiki where everyone can see it.
abasedfear.6051:
TimeBomb is correct; the wiki license is not the same as the API license and that should be made clear. That being said, there’s no reason to have the full text of the licensing on the wiki article if we’re just linking to it on the forums, so I cleaned it up a bit.
I was actually just thinking this. When ANet finally fleshes out the final license, it could very well be longer than the remaining content on the page. (Aren’t they all?) And let us not forget that these licenses can be subject to changes. A link to it, and a message with it stating that use of the API constitutes acceptance of the license and terms at said link.
poke.3712:
As a wiki administrator, I’d like to request that any further discussion of the API article take place on its talk page on the wiki where everyone can see it.
Seconded.
Regina Buenaobra.6193:
As requested by the wiki admins, please discuss the API wiki article over on the talk page of the official Guild Wars 2 wiki.
All discussion about how to structure that wiki page, what info it should contain, etc. should happen on the wiki, per the standard process for wiki pages.
Thank you.