On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org> wrote:
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Lars Aronsson
<lars(a)aronsson.se> wrote:
Anthony wrote:
My complaint was that the WMF was (and still is)
copying and
distributing my copyrighted content in a manner other than that
expressly provided under any license I have granted them.
Apart from the "expressly" provided (GFDL), there is the tradition
of how Wikipedia and other wikis "have always worked", namely that
we sometimes cut-and-paste text between articles without fully
attributing the original author. This is how wikis work, and if
you don't like it, you better not contribute your text.
I've stopped.
By the way, I stopped during a period where the rules at least stated that
such cut-and-paste moves were unacceptable and would be fixed, and before I
realized this was never intended to be followed:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_fix_cut-and-paste_moves
The vast majority of my edits took place prior to July 2007. Wikipedia was
a much different place back then. There were already notions that it would
become the way it is today, but there was still hope in my mind that it
wouldn't.