On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 11:46:32PM +0100, Imran Ghory wrote:
On 9 Jul 2002, at 23:07, Jan.Hidders wrote:
But does our license then force them to put a link on every article that they have copied from the original site?
No, what the licence does say is that,
- They can't use the name Wikipedia without permission, i.e. they
have to rename.
- They can't remove the name of the authors of articles, in the
case of anonymous articles, this might mean they have to attribute Wikipedia.
But in Wikipedia articles aren't necessarily anonymous; there's a history that describes who wrote what. That's why it was suggested that a link to the original article (and thereby its history) could replace the list of original authors.
-- Jan Hidders