Ilya Haykinson wrote:
Folks,
Jeff is actually trying to build a business based on reusing Wikipedia content, and yet a good half of these posts attack him for making use of the content. Nowhere in our charter does it say that we're building an immutable work. Let people who want to tweak it, rename it, change my username to a foul word, rename all mentions of Jimmy Wales to "Evil Dictator" or whatever do so. The source material is Wikipedia. The end users can't call theirs Wikipedia, since that's the WMF's trademark. Beyond that, we should be encouraging all uses --
Yes. The more of these there are the better. This includes the right to use all or part of the Wikimedia material to start a new wiki. The result still has to be consistent with GFDL, and trademark limitations should not be that much of a problem. These new wikis aren't bound by NPOV, and they can be as liberal or conservative as they want around copyright law. If they want to avoid wikilove and establish a flame-wiki that's up to them too.
This all seems consistent with freedom of information.
Ec