2009/3/20 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
2009/3/20 Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net:
A copy of Wikipedia text is frequently used in eBay descriptions of books. The attribution is simply to Wikipedia, and does not progress so far as to say "[...] et al." That's about as much as anyone could reasonably expect, no matter what the licence says.
This is what I mean when I say this is not a game of Nomic, and the law is squishy. Does anyone actually think they could stop someone from doing this? (If so, you're too batshit crazy to be listened to in this discussion.)
eBay will remove items that violate various rules - they would probably remove something that violated copyright if the copyright holder reported it through the proper channels.