Lightning wrote:
I really wish wikipedia had used the public domain as a license.
Public domain is /not/ a license. It is the lack of a license.
therefore everything would be able to be used
everywhere.
And then Encarta gets a huge free update by importing all our work into their encyclopedia and then /not/ allowing us, or anybody else for that matter, to use their improvements as a basis to further improve the text. The whole cycle of positive feedback gets sucked dry by parasites who take our text and enslaves it under a proprietary license. Copyleft protects the freedom of the content itself.
Information is already free; with copyleft we are ensuring that it's presentation will also be free.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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