On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 14:22, Chuck Smith wrote:
We can
probably get away with it, since we have an
educational goal, no
commercial interests, and are not an attractive
target for lawsuits,
but selling (extracts from) Wikipedia in any form is
made almost
impossible by these fair use landmines.
From what I understood. I could go out tomorrow,
print Wikipedia as an 20-volume encyclopedia set and
start selling it tomorrow, without having any legal
problems. Am I wrong here? Perhaps a CD-format would
be more practical though. ;-)
Let's say you don't make any formatting modifications or changes, and
just sell Wikipedia in bound form. Your obligation then essentially
becomes to "take reasonably prudent steps...to ensure that [the version
of
Wikipedia.org that you used] will remain thus accessible...until at
least one year after the last time you distribute" your bound copies.
Those reasonably prudent steps could certainly involve paying Bomis
something to keep the archive you used accessible.
If you make any changes to the files, then you can't rely on what's on
wikipedia.org; you'd have to put up your own website with the modified
files.
That's the difference from public domain.