[WikiEN-l] Slashdot: Book plagarized Wikipedia

[Anthony]

On Nov 14, 2007 8:27 AM, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/14/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Ydorb says he's public-domained most of his contributions, but rightly
> > > points out that other WP contributors were involved in the apparently
> > > plagarized version, and that the WP GFDL sharing license would require
> > > attribution anyways.
> >
> > If you release your contributions in the public domain, there is no
> > requirement to attribute it, whether it's also been released under
> > GFDL or not, so I'm not sure what you mean by "anyways".
> >
> >
> Plagiarism isn't affected by the licence or the law. It's an academic sin,
> not a legal one.
>
Depends on the jurisdiction.  In many jurisdictions, plagiarism is
illegal, even if the work is in the public domain.  The right to
attribution can exist outside of copyright law.