Folks,
Jeff is actually trying to build a business based on reusing Wikipedia
content, and yet a good half of these posts attack him for making use of the
content. Nowhere in our charter does it say that we're building an
immutable work. Let people who want to tweak it, rename it, change my
username to a foul word, rename all mentions of Jimmy Wales to "Evil
Dictator" or whatever do so. The source material is Wikipedia. The end
users can't call theirs Wikipedia, since that's the WMF's trademark. Beyond
that, we should be encouraging all uses --
On 7/26/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 7/26/06, Lars Aronsson <lars(a)aronsson.se> wrote:
Yes of course, but then the article history shows
that someone
else had edited the text after I was there, and the diff (included
in the distribution or available by link to the Wikipedia website)
shows exactly what my contribution was. Does your filter program
show its own modifications in the article history?
The GFDL doesn't require that a distributor make every previous
version available.
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