[Foundation-l] wikipedia content in a GPL program

[Andres Baravalle]

Daniel Mayer wrote:
> --- 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. 

yes, I would need only the first 1-2 paragraphs.

I have sent a similar message to licensing at gnu.org and to I got exactly
the same suggestion of using an external file.

while this is feasible, it may make the structure of the program less
clear, so I think that rewording the text is my easier option.

thank you very much for your answer,
	Andres


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