Hoi, Yes, probably and in the process they do exactly what we aim to achieve; share in the sum of all knowledge. What they do not do is claim copyright. They are the number one referral site for our traffic.
You may be right in a narrow sense but it will ill serve us to do something about it. Thanks, GerardM
On 5 June 2017 at 19:32, The Cunctator cunctator@gmail.com wrote:
Both Google and Graphiq are using pretty much the entire Wikipedia corpus for their results.
On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 12:40 PM, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
Well "fair use" applies, but if the amount of content used goes beyond
fair
use than it needs to be indicated that the content is under an open license.
J
On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 10:32 AM, The Cunctator cunctator@gmail.com wrote:
I've been a bit out of the loop on this for a while, so please be kind
to
the oldbie - what's current Wikimedia policy on adaptive reuse of
Wikipedia
content into non-free publications?
E.g. Graphiq https://www.graphiq.com/terms-and-conditions http://colleges.startclass.com/l/1929/Harvard-University
and Google https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/ https://www.google.com/search?q=harvard+university
I recognize that Google gives Wikimedia a lot of money, even if the foundation isn't very transparent about that, but I'd think that
doesn't
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