Should we have a link and terse copyright notice on every article in Wikipedia?
I don't personally see this as being required by the license (read carefully the parts about compilations and copyright notices, and think of the website as a compilation). But even if it is not, we might still think this is a good idea, to emphasize to newcomers that this is a free (in the GNU sense) project.
See, for example: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States
Very nice looking, approaching a commercial quality level. Yet, nowhere is it made clear that this text is available under the GNU FDL.
I would recommend a notice somewhere on the page near this:
This page has been accessed 17682 times. The page was last modified 08:57 Nov 24, 2002.
This email was inspired by Bryce's actions and complaints.
--Jimbo
I added a small "copyright" note (en and de).
Magnus
Jimmy Wales wrote:
Should we have a link and terse copyright notice on every article in Wikipedia?
I don't personally see this as being required by the license (read carefully the parts about compilations and copyright notices, and think of the website as a compilation). But even if it is not, we might still think this is a good idea, to emphasize to newcomers that this is a free (in the GNU sense) project.
See, for example: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States
Very nice looking, approaching a commercial quality level. Yet, nowhere is it made clear that this text is available under the GNU FDL.
I would recommend a notice somewhere on the page near this:
This page has been accessed 17682 times. The page was last modified 08:57 Nov 24, 2002.
This email was inspired by Bryce's actions and complaints.
--Jimbo _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l@wikipedia.org http://www.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
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