On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 9:28 PM, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2009/3/9 Milos Rancic <millosh(a)gmail.com>om>:
And Kenyans would care about US and European
copyright laws? :))) And
we would care why they didn't attribute us? In such cases, those who
care from both sides are maybe ignorants, maybe idealists, but they
are definitely stupid.
Kenyan copyright law is ultimately derived from English law .
So, they don't care about their own copyright law.
Should we
treat such persons systematically or it is better to add
some exceptional rules? Something like to give a mandate to WMF to
solve problems of types like giving a formal permission to the
government of Central African Republic (or to some NGO which operates
there) to print Wikipedia editions in English and Swahili without any
attribution (even they don't need it). Or for spoken editions for
education of blind persons?
There is no legal way to do that nor is there any real benefit in doing so.
If the present options are between linking to the history of article
at Wikipedia up to the full attribution, I don't see any reason why
the whole range can't be applied in the ToS. (And, yes, I made a
mistake with mentioning "no attribution at all".)