On Fri, 2004-20-08 at 12:58 -0400, Michael Becker wrote:

I'm forwarding my message to the wikitech list because I think this might be of more interest to you people than wikipedians at large.

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michael Becker mbecker@jumpingjackweb.com Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 09:43:09 -0400 Subject: RE: [WikiEN-l] defining Free Encyclopedia To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org

though, as long as there is a hard line drawn between copyrighted and GPL material, it should be easy enough to remove. If we don't facilitate the easy removal of this content, the wikipedia is no

The opposite of copyrighted is "public domain". Works covered by the GPL, and the FDL ARE copyrighted. It is copyright law that provides for the legal backing of the GPL/FDL (and for that matter, _any_ license).