I got a reply to the letter I sent to Chess and Beyond:
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Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 15:54:19 -0700 From: "Matthew Personal Account" mhollist@cox.net To: "'Arvind Narayanan'" arvindn@meenakshi.cs.iitm.ernet.in Cc: arvindn1@yahoo.com, karuke23@netscape.net Subject: RE: Use of content from Wikipedia
Arvind- I want to thank you for taking the time to notify us of your responsibility in conjunction with the use to Wicipedia information. We in no way intended to go against the copy right and apologize for the misuse. We will gladly make the changes mentioned and thank you for your assistance. Our design teem will bee working on it and you should start to see the changes in the next week to ten days. Thank you again.
Matthew Hollist Sales and Marketing Director Chess And Beyond
www.chessandbeyond.com sales@chessandbeyond.com
-----Original Message----- From: Arvind Narayanan [mailto:arvindn@meenakshi.cs.iitm.ernet.in] Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 1:29 AM To: questions@chessandbeyond.com Subject: Use of content from Wikipedia
Dear Chess and Beyond,
We're delighted to see that several pages on your website, http://www.chessandbeyond.com/ use content from Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org/), the free encyclopedia. This is just the sort of application that we at Wikipedia wish to promote.
However, we'd like to point out that to use content from Wikipedia you should include a link back to the source Wikipedia articles ( http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endgame, http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess%20strategy%20and%20tactics, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules%20of%20chess, http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic%20chess%20notation, http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_(chess) http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_(chess) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rook_(chess) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop_(chess) http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_(chess) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pawn_(chess)), as we've suggested on our copyrights page (http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights). Additionally, you should also include a GFDL notice. One way of doing this would be to add the text "This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, which means that you can copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license", and provide a link to http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html.
Thanks for your assistance, Arvind Narayanan Wikipedia contributor
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From: "Arvind Narayanan" arvindn@meenakshi.cs.iitm.ernet.in
I got a reply to the letter I sent to Chess and Beyond:
Good job, the OCILLA cease & decist issue will have to wait in the wings for more resistive users who do not see the wisdom of just being nice.
Alex756