Le Thu, 27 Feb 2003 19:09:14 -0800 (PST),
inspiré Axel Boldt <axelboldt(a)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