As I understand it (correct me if I'm wrong), they substantially use our content, but then do not include the GFDL or any links to it, and no attribution.
On 6/12/08, David Goodman dgoodmanny@gmail.com wrote:
do they copy as a mirror would, and then add articles of their own, or do they use the text as part of articles with additions & subtractions of their own?
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Dan Rosenthal swatjester@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/12/08, Henning Schlottmann h.schlottmann@gmx.net wrote:
Titan Deng wrote:
We Chinese Wikipedians are now collecting Baidupedia articles which
were
copied from Chinese Wikipedia.
What is all that copyright, lawyer, enforcement, loose face stuff about?
Last time I checked, Wikipedia was about disseminating free knowledge. Unfortunately the projects are blocked by the Chinese government, so people of the peoples republic have no access to our content, not the the parts that are deemed dangerous by the government, not to the other parts. Now someone takes at least some of the uncontroversial content and makes it available by copying into Baidu.
Of course it would be nice if they would acknowledge the license and give proper attribution. But they can't - Wikipedia is banned and they can't name this source.
But as our mission is to distribute our knowledge, I believe this is the second best way to distribute our articles, and the best available until the forces that are open up the Great Firewall.
Ciao Henning [[user:h-stt]]
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Free knowledge does not mean that the information itself is unrestricted, nor does it mean that the authors who make information free waive all of their rights. We fundamentally require attribution to our authors under
our
license. If Baidupedia is not respecting that, and are not in compliance with the other terms of the GFDL, then it is very difficult to say that they are working for the freedom of knowledge. Copyright infringement != free knowledge. It == theft. By enforcing that other websites respect the terms of the licenses our works are published under,
we
are actually furthering free knowledge by giving our contributors some assurances that their work will be protected and not abused. I know that
I,
for one, would have second thoughts about some of my contributions if I
knew
that it would be taken by another person and used under their name.
That's
not free dissemination, its theft.
-Dan
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