On 5/15/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) <alphasigmax(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Anthony DiPierro wrote:
On 5/12/06, Erik Moeller
<eloquence(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/12/06, Steve Block
<steve.block(a)myrealbox.com> wrote:
If they are and they aren't citing authors,
aren't they in breach of the
GFDL. And if that's the case, can we sue? Please?
The Wikimedia Foundation
doesn't hold the copyrights over Wikimedia
content, it is merely a user that must follow the terms of the GFDL
like any mirror or fork. Wikimedia could, however, provide financial
or legal assistance to the authors whose copyright is infringed in a
lawsuit.
That would be fairly hypocritical, though, since Wikimedia itself
doesn't even follow the GFDL.
*hauls out text of the GFDL*
Right. Section 6: Collection of Documents:
In order to be in compliance with the GFDL you need to be in
compliance with the whole thing, not just one section.
Anthony
The articles themselves are licensed under the GFDL,
and Wikipedia is a
collection of articles - so the individual copies are replaced by a
single copy *included in the collection*. IANAL but it's good enough for
me, /and most other contributors/. What's *not* good enough is mirroring
us without even *attempting* GFDL compliance, at least to the same
extent that Wikipedia itself complies with the GFDL.
And how would you suggest they do that?
Anthony