On 15/11/05, Taco Deposit tacodeposit@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/14/05, Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:
[Memory Alpha] is under an incompatible license, which should mean that none of the content in MA was even taken from Wikipedia.
I was browsing Memory Alpha today and read the notice "The main text of this synopsis is based on the corresponding Wikipedia article" at the bottom of http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Conspiracy.
But I don't know whether "based on" means "taken from" or not
Checking the histories, the originals were the same through the cunning contrivance of the original author of the text having added it to Wikipedia, and then about a week or two later to Memory Alpha.
This is, of course, perfectly legitimate; I can put something on Wikipedia which is entirely my own work, thus licensing it under the GFDL, and then publish another version somewhere else under a different license; they're not AIUI exclusive.
-- - Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk