[WikiEN-l] new Google Earth tie-in (!!)

Delirium delirium at hackish.org
Wed Dec 13 20:32:08 UTC 2006


The Cunctator wrote:

>On 12/13/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>On 12/13/06, The Cunctator <cunctator at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>Looking at the screenshot and reading GFDL 1.2 it looks like they should
>>>just a) have a link on each page to the authors/article history and b)
>>>release the code for their modified version of the pages. Not sure how
>>>appropriate it is for them to use the logo.
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>>>From that page you are two clicks from the history.
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>The history on our servers. Where's their copy?
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Our own information on reuse suggests that a link back is sufficient 
[1].  Whether that's how the GFDL would be interpreted in court or not I 
can't say, but it hardly seems like something to fault Google for if 
they're doing precisely what we ask of them.

-Mark

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights#Example_notice



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