2009/1/28 Michael Peel email@mikepeel.net:
Hi all,
The author of Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, John Broughton, has just uploaded the book to Wikipedia under the GFDL, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual
My reaction when I spotted this was: great, but shouldn't this be on Wikibooks? Part of the author's response to this was that "the agreement between O'Reilly Media and the Wikimedia Foundation was that this would be at /Wikipedia/ ... [do] not remove it from this site without a /lot/ more discussion among a /lot/ of other people."
Did the WMF really make an agreement saying that the content should be on Wikipedia, rather than a WMF project or simply under a free license?
Does anyone want to weigh in with comments on this on the talk page?
Thanks, Mike Peel
Copyright issues mean that it will be heading for deletio n once we switch toi CC-BY-SA-3.0.