Hoi, In a way you remind me of the pope, you want to dictate the rules but you do not play the game. Your idea of what the WMF and its projects should be are not shared by all, for from it. The reason why the GFDL needs to be replaced is because we want to be better able to share. At that the GFDL is intended for the documentation of software and not at all for a project like Wikipedia. Wikipedia is about bringing the sum of all knowledge to all people. From my perspective, this can be done by hook and by crook. I do not care when some material is abused under a different license, blame and shame sure, but the key thing is that the knowledge gets out there. The license we use is a means to an end, and that is something you have lost sight off.
The attitude you show is a proprietary one. You make it seem as if you can prevent the move to a more appropriate license from happening with you posturing.. I do resent this. Thanks, GerardM
2009/1/10 Anthony wikimail@inbox.org
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Lars Aronsson lars@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. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l