[Foundation-l] wikipedia content in a GPL program

[Daniel Mayer]

--- Andres Baravalle <andres.baravalle at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would need a suggestion on how to incorporate (if it is possible)
> text from several wikipedia articles into a GPL software
> (phpGrabComics). I would need to incorporate a few lines (3 to 12) in
> many files. Basically I would like to include in pages as

If all you are only going to use is the first paragraph or two, then that is
fair use. However, and very stupidly, the FDL and the GPL are not compatible,
making anything more than fair use unnecessarily difficult. For this reason
(and a few others) the Debian project does not allow FDLd documentation. 

This, for example, prevents our developers from using FDLd MediaWiki
documentation in MediaWiki. One way I have suggested to get around this is to
include a separate SQL database with that documentation in it (the database
itself, of course, would need to comply with the FDL). So far I haven't heard
whether or not this would be legal and IANAL. 

-- mav


	
		
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