[Foundation-l] Copies of Wikipedia's articles found on Knol

[Nikola Smolenski]

On Saturday 02 August 2008 05:41:35 David Goodman wrote:
> But fewer future works will build of Wikipedia  if they cant use it
> how they want. I find it interesting that the people here are
> concerned about financial rathe than intellectual credit.

Both things you say are flat out wrong. First, it is by no means certain that 
fewer future works will build on Wikipedia if it continues with a copyleft 
license; immediately perhaps, but you are forgetting that people will be able 
to build upon derivatives of derivatives, which would otherwise not be the 
case. Second, I don't think that anyone here has mentioned anything about 
financial credit; people are concerned about continuing availability of work, 
which is a completely different matter.

> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com> wrote:
> > As Wikipedians, I think we are all committed to giving away the content
> > (i.e. no fees for reading the encyclopedia), but the question arising
> > from the GFDL vs. CC-BY, etc. is what limitations may be appropriate on
> > the additional uses that people might have for that content.  Personally,
> > I am glad that Wikipedia is subject to strong copyleft, which serves to
> > ensure that we should also benefit from future works that build upon
> > Wikipedia.