--- lcrocker@nupedia.com wrote: [snip]
I'll be the token dissenter here. I certainly don't care what anyone else does with free content--that's
why I made it free in the first place, because my imagination for what uses it might be put to is limited. Let any take it for any reason--for free or for profit--as long as they don't commit outright fraud by claiming that they created it and attach their own copyright notice, it's still free.
To some extent I agree with this. I think the only think we should be asking for is some form of acknowledgement that it came from Wikipedia. I think making the requirements too onerous will discourage people from using Wikipedia content, and retard Wikipedia's growth.
In support of the general idea, though, I should point out that making the requirement doesn't actually prevent any other uses, it just makes them non-automatic. Bomis could still grant permission for uses that violated the GFDL on an individual basis.
No, Bomis can't. Bomis only holds the copyright to material contributed by Bomis employees. All the other material contributed by others is copyrighted by them. So Bomis can only give permission for the terms of the license to be changed if the content is purely the work of Bomis employees, which given the collective authorship of Wikipedia articles is unlikely. In order to vary the terms of the license, you'd basically need agreement from every contributor. (On a side note, how many people working on Wikipedia actually are employed by Bomis? There's Larry, Jimbo, and who else?).
Simon.
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