On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 4:58 PM, WJhonson@aol.com wrote:

In a message dated 7/30/2008 1:54:35 PM Pacific Daylight Time, gmaxwell@gmail.com writes:

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I think we'd rather make it clear what we do and don't want before we can decide that someone is probably being malevolent.>>

So under the license we are now going to say, "we won't stop you from copying this page, but if you do we'll punish you for it."

Uh.... I see a problem with this approach.

I don't.

"All content here is freely available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation license [...] However it can be confusing to the public and irritating to our users if you set up duplicate copies of portion of these dumps designated as "user pages" on publicly available websites. Irritated users may criticize your activities as unethical if not technically forbidden due to the confusion, and may scrutinize your business activities to a much greater degree than they would otherwise. Especially careless use of Wikipedia "user pages" may result in your site fraudulently misrepresenting itself as being explicitly endorsed by one or more Wikipedia contributor, potentially opening you to litigation since no such endorsement is conveyed by Wikipedia's free content licensing. As such, if you are simply interested in making an online mirror we recommend that you only use [fileX] and leave [fileY] to people producing backups, historical archives, private mirrors, or performing research."

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 5:00 PM, WJhonson@aol.com wrote:

In a message dated 7/30/2008 1:58:41 PM Pacific Daylight Time, gmaxwell@gmail.com writes:

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Live mirrors are forbidden... but I think almost all of the bad behaving mirror sites that I've seen are live mirrors.>>

Fact ? That live mirrors are forbidden?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks#Remote_loading