On Fri, 2004-20-08 at 17:22 -0400, Michael Becker wrote:
Yes, if you read my last post to the wiken list, viewable here: http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2004-August/029985.html, I think I made it clear that I was using the term copyright too loosely. What I meant, was material released under a non-gnu- compatible license. We should draw a line between gnu-compatable content, and non-gnu-compatable content on the software side, to better facilitate removal of that content by future users of our content. Otherwise, we are sacrificing the freeness of our encyclopedia. If we leave things the way they are, there is no telling how hard it will actually be to remove this non-free content in the future.
Ok. I just jumped into the thread after someone bounced that one message to wikitech-l. I see you know what I mean. But anyway, Ill diverge to a slightly different point: when discussing legal issues you should be very precise in your wording - perhaps even more so then with technical issues. Its far easier to get a computer to undo something then a judge :)