My view is that any restriction of distribution that is not absolutely and unquestionably legally necessary is a violation of the moral rights of the contributors. We contributed to a free encyclopedia, in the sense that the material could be used freely--and widely. We all explicitly agreed there could be commercial use, and most of us did not particularly concern ourselves with how other commercial or noncommercial sites would use or license the material, as long as what we put on Wikipedia could be used by anyone.
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.comwrote:
2009/1/24 Anthony wikimail@inbox.org: >
My point of view is that the proposed license update is a violation of the moral rights of the contributors. If Mike is going to deny that moral rights exist in the first place, then I feel the need to explain that they do.
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