[Wikipedia-l] Re: Automatically checking for copyright violations

[Alphax]

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Tim Starling wrote:
> Alphax wrote:
> 
>>I've always held that anything over 5-6 words is plagiarism, unless it
>>is quoted. Quotations are fair use provided they are cited appropriately.
> 
> 
> Your unattributed quote "quotations are fair use" is plagiarism, and
> that is unacceptable. You should give Joseph Carter credit where it is
> due. He wrote "attributed quotations are fair use" in a post to
> debian-legal: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2001/05/msg00001.html
> , and your post was clearly ripped off from that.
> 

Well then, better let Joseph Carter know that Gilbert B. Rodman wrote,
in 1998 - http://www.iaspm.net/rpm/CopyRi_1.html - "reasonable"
quotations are "fair use."

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