[Foundation-l] Bertelsmann publishes "Wikipedia Encyclopedia in One Volume"

[Ray Saintonge]

David Gerard wrote:
> 2008/4/24 Kul Takanao Wadhwa <kwadhwa at wikimedia.org>
>>  > In the meantime, I am struggling with the details of adhering to the
>>  > letter of the GFDL -- because there is little precedent we are having
>>  > to work things out as we go. Someday, I would love to see a "dummy's
>>  > guide to publishing under a free content license" -- half of the
>>  > problem of using many licenses, even CC, is they're hard to figure out
>>  > for the average person.
>>     
>>  Come to think of it, this is actually a good idea. At least having
>>  some type of guide, or a condensed version, would be really helpful
>>  to be able to educate various parties out there...and I could really
>>  use this as well.
>>     
> I started this page for the express purpose of reducing the number of
> phone calls I got asking how people could reuse images from Wikipedia:
>
>     http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reuse
>
> (Asking for clarification on the trickier bits was where I discovered
> how licensing at fsf.org seem to use a Magic 8 Ball for GFDL questions.
> The FSF don't have a clue about the license either.)
If you really believe that such a page will inhibit the phone callers, 
I'm afraid that you are suffering from pathological optimism. ;-)

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