Dan Rosenthal wrote:
But that's exactly what Baidupedia has done. The
assurances to every single
person who has ever contributed to a WMF project are undermined as long as
Baidupedia uses our content while claiming it as their own, under copyright.
It is not copying. Copying would be merely them reusing the content. It's
their claim that THEY were the authors, that it belongs to them, that it is
something they could potentially sue you over. That is the theft; the theft
of the authorship and ownership rights of the Wikipedian who wrote the
content. It is fundamentally unacceptable that we support that.
I may be grossly misreading what you just wrote above, or just not
being well enough informed about all the statements about our
licencing system on-wiki, but just to clarify; what precise
"assurances" are you talking about?
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen