Till Westermayer wrote:
but wouldn't the inclusion of our copylefted
material because of the
meme-viral character of that material make IMDB and others going GNU?
That's a bit of a tricky issue, because the GFDL doesn't seem to have
been intended for websites, but books. In a book, I think this would be
the case -- if you took someone's book, and added a few chapters to it,
you'd have to FDL the whole thing, not just the original chapters.
Similarly, if you published a book on movie history and included stuff
from Wikipedia, you'd have to FDL the whole book, including your own
writings.
I'm not sure if this carries over to a website though. Can a website
have only certain sections FDL'd (say, the reviews) and consider the
rest of them a separate work, even if they happen to appear on the same
page? The analogy to books would say no, but I'm not sure.
-Mark