On Nov 14, 2007 8:27 AM, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/14/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
Ydorb says he's public-domained most of his contributions, but rightly points out that other WP contributors were involved in the apparently plagarized version, and that the WP GFDL sharing license would require attribution anyways.
If you release your contributions in the public domain, there is no requirement to attribute it, whether it's also been released under GFDL or not, so I'm not sure what you mean by "anyways".
Plagiarism isn't affected by the licence or the law. It's an academic sin, not a legal one.
Depends on the jurisdiction. In many jurisdictions, plagiarism is illegal, even if the work is in the public domain. The right to attribution can exist outside of copyright law.