Erik van den Muijzenberg
... This ISP is using a Wikipedia-logo of their own, and on all pages the title-tag says '[ISP-name] partner Wikipedia'.
They cannot say they are a partner with us because they are not. They cannot also use our logo without our consent, which they do not have.
There is no link to the GNU-license, and the pages are not stating they were copied from Wikipedia.
This is in clear breach of our license. Somebody should tell them what needs to be done in order to comply. Otherwise they cannot use any Wikipedia content.
However they have a link to the original page on the Wiki-server.
That much is good. You may want to tell them that simply hosting the printable versions of the French Wikipedia will put them into GNU FDL compliance (there should be a link-back, statement that the article was retrieved from Wikipedia, and link to the GNU FDL on each printable page).
--Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
Daniel Mayer wrote:
That much is good. You may want to tell them that simply hosting the printable versions of the French Wikipedia will put them into GNU FDL compliance (there should be a link-back, statement that the article was retrieved from Wikipedia, and link to the GNU FDL on each printable page).
I'm not entirely sure one of those points is necessary: the statement that the article was retrieved from Wikipedia. Simply saying "this text is under the GFDL; click 'here' to get a list of authors" should suffice, since Wikipedia isn't one of the authors. Or even mirroring the edit history themselves and not liking to (or mentioning) Wikipedia at all. In any case, we should make sure what we're telling people they "have" to do is something they actually *do* absolutely "have" to do.
-Mark
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