Before its pointed out by someone else - TOS 5 says Google takes no "ownership or control" while TOS 8 requires you to grant them a license to reuse the content, so that isn't an obvious textual conflict.
What are the practical repercussions, if any, of granting that particular license to Google? It looks like it might be a violation of the GFDL, but beyond the technical violation what undesirable outcomes occur for the content and its creators?
Nathan
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
So which is it? If its the second, then the portion of the content posted by users is licensed under whichever license they choose. Is item 8 intended to allow Google to publish the content through Knol or some other as yet undetermined service?
The "stealing" language is a bit strong, by the way. If anything, reposting articles with attribution but with a license that grants Google unacceptable rights is simply allowing Google to steal Wikipedia content - or giving it an opening to do so, which I doubt it would take.
Nathan