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(a)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(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On 6/12/08, Henning Schlottmann
<h.schlottmann(a)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.
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