Le Thu, 27 Feb 2003 19:09:14 -0800 (PST), inspiré Axel Boldt axelboldt@yahoo.com écrivait la plume alerte :
Erik Moeller writes
Yes, you can use Wikipedia articles. They are licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, which mainly means that articles that use them also have to be FDL-licensed. Note that the FDL does not mean that you "lose" your copyrights, only that others will be able to copy and modify the so- licensed text. We consider this fair:
Not all of us, as fighting against intellectual property rights using the tools of intellectual property strikes some as hypocritical.
There is a slight confusion in the speech of IP : copy-right is the protection made through a patent or a registration (c) (tm) (r), it is the historical anglo-saxon point of view (Bern Convention) author's right is the automatic protection of the creation (Geneva Convention) this conception comes from the 1789 revolution. It covers espcially the "moral right" (such as paternity) of the creation
FDL is based on the second concept. It is quite abusive (even though it is made in official translation of UNO or WTO) to translate droit d'auteurs in copyright.
The first concept is more editor-friendly than the second one which is clearly authors-friendly.
Friendly yours,
Jul