On 5/20/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
Then you could sue me, and I'd countersue you for violating the GFDL. What part of "add no other conditions whatsoever to those of this License" don't you understand?
If you're currently forcing datafeed recipients to agree not to redistribute the data they receive, then you're in major breach of the GFDL. Not just the relatively minor breaches that have been going on for so long, but you've subverting the very essence of copyleft.
It depends what you mean by "reselling the datafeed". If we're talking about making a new datafeed from your servers to your client and sending the data you get from the Wikimedia datafeed, then there is nothing anyone can do the stop you, but that's not really reselling the datafeed, it's just reselling the data.
Fair enough - that's what I meant. Taking the stream of data, copying it, and distributing it to others.
If you mean somehow giving your customers access directly to the Wikimedia datafeed, so that they are using Wikimedia's bandwidth, then the GDFL doesn't cover that - it's that which I would assume is forbidden by contract.
No, I didn't mean that at all.
Anthony