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From what I've read on the Internet, wmd-editor is not (yet?) free software by itself, and its author has gone MIA.
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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/]].
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Given all the above, what about upgrading this plugin to use pagedown instead of wmd? It seem a clear win to me...
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Given all the above, what about upgrading this plugin to use pagedown instead of wmd? It seem a clear win to me... --(unsigned)
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> AFAICS, pagedown is a modified version of WMD. Let's
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> look at its license file: --[[Joey]]
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> I have moved that conversation to the pagedown plugin todo [[todo/pagedown_plugin/discussion]] page, which now actually has an implementation! --[[anarcat]]
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<pre>
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A javascript port of Markdown, as used on Stack Overflow
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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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<http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/>
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Original Showdown code copyright (c) 2007 John Fraser
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Modifications and bugfixes (c) 2009 Dana Robinson
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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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copy [...]
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</pre>
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> Ok, so it says it's based on showdown. John Fraser wrote showdown and also
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> WMD, which IIRC was built on top of showdown. (Showdown converts the
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> markdown to html, and WMD adds the editor UI.)
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> I can nowhere find a actual statement of the copyright of showdown or
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> WMD. <http://code.google.com/p/wmd/> has a "MIT License" notice on it,
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> but this is clearly just the license chosen when signing up at google
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> code for the repo that would be used for a rewrite of the code, and the only thing
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> said about the previous 1.0 release of WMD is "use it freely", which is not
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> specific enough to be a grant of license, and is moreover not a free
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> software license, as it does not cover distribution or modification.
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> Which was all covered in the thread here,
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> when StackOverflow decided to start working on pagedown.
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> <http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/reverse-engineering-the-wmd-editor/>
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> This thread does not give any indication that they ever managed to get
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> a license grant for WMD/showdown. It frankly, does not inspire confidence
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> that the people working on this care about the license.
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>
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> It would probably be pretty easy to adapt the ikiwiki wmd plugin
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> to use pagedown. But without a clear and credible license, why?
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> (Note that I have a wmd-new branch in my ikiwiki git repo that
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> uses <https://github.com/derobins/wmd>, which was an earlier
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> version of pagedown (probably, not entirely clear).)
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>
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> An alternate alternative is markitup: <http://markitup.jaysalvat.com/>
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> It has a clear history and a credible license (MIT or GPL dual license).
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> It's also easily extensible to other formats so could handle rst etc.
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> It does not, however, have a markdown to html converter -- for
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> previewing it has to talk to the server with AJAX.
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> --[[Joey]]
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Other conversations:
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>> I've got pagedown working on my personal site (simon.kisikew.org) but I'm not sure how
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>> I can inject the relevant <div>'s in the right place. They need to go **above**
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