[Foundation-l] Britannica became free

Nikola Smolenski smolensk at eunet.yu
Mon Dec 22 15:12:11 UTC 2008


teun spaans wrote:
> "but possibly illegal" you can omit the word "possibly". I dont see a copy
> left license at their site.

You can copy it for your personal use :°♫

> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni at gmail.com>wrote:
>> 2008/12/22 Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni at gmail.com>:
>>> 2008/12/22 Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com>:
>>> And Britannica has this totally weird feature - the article loads
>>> itself as soon as the scrollbar progresses through it. So even if it
>>> is free as in beer, it is obnoxiously inconvenient to copy text from
>>> it, 'cuz Ctrl-A doesn't work as expected.
>> ... And of course, i forgot to mention that it is not free in the
>> Stallman-Lessig sense, so copying text from is not only inconvenient,
>> but possibly illegal.



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