[Foundation-l] Copyright issues of wikimedia projects

[Daniel Mayer]

--- Andre Engels <engelsAG at t-online.de> wrote:
> It's NOT free, you say? So, I may not use it freely? You DO have a strange
> definition of 'free'.

Not libre, which in this context means it is only half free. Yes, you can *use*
it freely, but the content itself is not free. 
 
> > Decrease that freedom? How when anything from a derivative work can be
> > reincorporated back into the original? In what way does that decrease the
> > freedom of the original document? 
> 
> By restricting how it may be used. What other way could there be to decrease
> freedom?

Those restrictions are designed to ensure the freedom of the content, meaning
it can not be controled. 

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)


	
		
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