People who are using the license are establishing custom and practice which is also relevant. I cannot imagine archiving on my site the past history of a Wikipedia page, the link back to Wikipedia gives access to that. As to law being practical, we all try.
Fred Bauder
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From: steve vertigo utilitymuffinresearch@yahoo.com Reply-To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 01:54:10 -0700 (PDT) To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: Use of Wikipedia articles at Malaspina.com
I'm in no way an expert, but looking at the practical implications of such a requirement, it would seem that such a requirement would make the GFDL useless for most purposes. Hardly any webmaster would archive every past version of a page.
Timwi
Civil Law is not meant to be practical. It's meant merely to be a roadsign that says, "our stuff, our rules" -- so that later it can look like a breach of contract, and money can be restituted from the prostituting party.
Ironically, the notion that "your not supposed to make $$ off of X" (as a claim) is kinda antithetical to the whole notion of lawsuits, which tend to be about "only Ims supposed to make money off X". And in the end, regardless of GNUFDL, a civil win would be represented (symbolically) in dough. Otherwise why would anyone bother forking out for a lair?
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