On 6/20/03 3:11 PM, "Daniel Mayer" maveric149@yahoo.com wrote:
It seems that some of our ship text has been copied from websites using the Crown Copyright which reads in part;
"....may be reproduced free of charge in any format or medium for research, private study or for internal circulation within an organisation."
That may cover Wikipedia itself but not downstream users of our text.
"This is subject to the material being reproduced accurately and not used in a misleading context."
Having this text on a wiki leads to a very real possibility that the text will be modified to be something it wasn't before. It is also a very subjective clause.
"Where any of the Crown copyright items on this site are being republished or copied to others, the source of the material must be identified and the copyright status acknowledged."
In other words the Crown Copyright is viral. This IMO is wholly incompatible with the GNU FDL.
The viral part isn't the problem, it's the other conditions. Yes, it's incompatible with the GFDL.