Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On 5/4/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
I don't consider a fight a good option. However, I don't consider that being unencyclopedic for fear of thugs is a necessary action to avoid a fight.
Unencyclopedic?
Please. We write about the Linux kernel without including the completely source-code, and yet we could manage to that that legally.
That's almost entirely due to the fact that the source code is too long to usefully fit in an article; it's the same reason our articles on amendments to the U.S. Constitution include the entire text of the amendments verbatim, but our article on the U.S. Constitution itself doesn't include the entire text verbatim (we link to Wikisource for that instead, since it's too long). When stuff is shorter and relevant we pretty much always include it; plenty of our technical articles do in fact have executable code snippets.
-Mark