On 7/4/06, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
However, in the short term, since this came as a complete surprise without any information given to the broader community, I have removed the link from wikibooks, and also asked lulu to pull the book immediately (but perhaps temporarily).
Also, from Danny:
Furthermore, the content was developed as a result of a grant made to the Foundation with the stated goal of creating *free* content. After considerable discussions with them, we have made it clear that we intend to keep the books online and not take them to print.
Let's just be absolutely clear here that the content is under the GFDL, and anyone can use it commercially or in other ways if they follow the terms of the license. The only issues here are a) whether it is wise for the Wikimedia Foundation to do it at this point in time b) that the Wikimedia Foundation name was used inappropriately c) to what extent such uses should be documented on the Wikimedia projects.
Right?
Erik