On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 10:48 AM, emijrp emijrp@gmail.com wrote:
Of course. I'm not speaking about the right to mirror, but the need of mirrors.
By the way, our free licenses also need to show the text authors. Thousand people re-use the contents and link to the Wikipedia page. As far as I know, no history is available now at Italian Wikipedia to look up. CC-BY-SA/GFDL violation?
There's no content either.
And, the e-mail Huib replied to appeared to focus on permission for mirrors. As he said, there are many and it is already permitted, although many do not properly comply with the license terms. Enforcing the content licenses (as distinct from trademarks or content copyrighted by the WMF) is not the remit of the WMF, nor is promoting mirrors.
Nathan