On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Gregor Hagedorn g.m.hagedorn@gmail.comwrote:
Yea, I was erring on the side of caution here. Any fully automated import
would have to skip any free text, because it *might* be protected.
I think there is a danger to be overly cautious. The purpose of infoboxes is to express knowledge in a consise way. One might want to add an additional protection by refusing any text that consists of more than 3 sentences or a given number of words (20?). But free form text like (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysql):
License http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_license GNU General Public License http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License (version 2, with linking exceptionhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPL_linking_exception) or proprietary EULA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EULA
is not creative and thus not copyright protected.
Sure, but what if it was "GPL <ref>It used to be WTFPL license until 20-3-2012 when they got in legal trouble in [[sharks vs dolphins]], which resulted in the doctrine that "mammals have restricted rights in international waters unless holding an European country flag.</ref>"