At 09:16 08-01-2004, Daniel Mayer wrote:
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.
I agree.
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.
Yes, I read in a list of more or less complying mirrors it is in breach of the license. I wrote a rough version of a polite letter, and one of our sysops will send it to the ISP.
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
Yes, but they are not interested in the French version. :-) It's a Dutch ISP and they are copying the Dutch database. (Apparently via a Perl-script.)
should be a link-back, statement that the article was retrieved from Wikipedia, and link to the GNU FDL on each printable page).
So I understood. Strange enough, not everyone on our Dutch mailinglist agrees. But we will warn this Dutch ISP nevertheless.
Thank you for your mail.
grtz, Erik aka Muijz
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