Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On 5/4/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)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