[Wikipedia-l] Re: Enciclopedia Libre

[Timwi]

Mark Williamson wrote:
> 
> I was thinking of another non-English semifork of Wikipedia which has
> way more articles than the Wikipedia version, and whose owner is
> deeply involved in Wikipedia but while bragging in private e-mails and
> on-list about how much work he/she does compared to others to put more
> free content online, does not consider allowing the corresponding
> language version of Wikipedia to share content.

If they are GFDL, they cannot disallow that. If they are not GFDL, they 
are using material originally from Wikipedia illegally.