On 6/3/06, Anthony DiPierro wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
In any case, the letter probably shouldn't state "you're OK if you do *this*" but rather "you're not OK if you don't do *this*".
Actually, I sort of misspoke. It'd be *better* if the Wikimedia Foundation came up with a set of simple, concrete steps which would allow for GFDL compliance.
But this is unlikely to happen for two reasons - the GFDL is not easy to comply with, and Wikipedia is set up in a way which makes GFDL compliance even more difficult.
So, in the case of Baidu, settling for a GFDL notice is probably the most that can be hoped for. A link back to the original article would be nice, though it might be hard to convince them to do, and it isn't required by the GFDL anyway.
Anthony
Anthony DiPierro wrote:
On 6/3/06, Anthony DiPierro wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
In any case, the letter probably shouldn't state "you're OK if you do *this*" but rather "you're not OK if you don't do *this*".
Actually, I sort of misspoke. It'd be *better* if the Wikimedia Foundation came up with a set of simple, concrete steps which would allow for GFDL compliance.
But this is unlikely to happen for two reasons - the GFDL is not easy to comply with, and Wikipedia is set up in a way which makes GFDL compliance even more difficult.
Well, we do have some working guidelines here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights#Users.27_rights_and_obliga...
Those are the ones usually used when determining the category in which to list Wikipedia mirrors and forks under http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/GFDL_Compliance (and similarly to whom to send letters requesting compliance).
Whether these steps are precisely equivalent to following the GFDL is another matter, but they're something of a consensus opinion on what we'd like our downstream users to do. That is, if people follow those criteria, the vast majority of Wikimedians/Wikipedians will be satisfied, and the downstream user will get listed in the nice green-colored category.
-Mark
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