zero 0000 wrote:
I haven't really been paying attention, but it
seems like the
possibility of a printed snapshot of Wikipedia is under discussion.
I hope you are all very very VERY familiar with the disastrous
experiences of Eric Weisstein when he gave a publisher permission to
print a snapshot of his online mathematics encyclopedia.
See
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/docs/legal.html .
I don't see that as possible unless the contributors have signed away
their copyrights. In previous discussions about possibly changing from
FDL to something else, there was a strong feeling that getting these
rights from all who had them would be impossible.
Ec