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

Magnus Manske magnusmanske at googlemail.com
Mon Jul 28 16:05:31 UTC 2008


On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> The issue of how CC-BY is not compatible with
> GFDL is a little opaque, to me

The GFDL does not allow relicensing under CC-BY (unless you wrote the
text entirely yourself). Trying to do so is a copyright violation on
your part.

Transparent enough now?

Magnus

P.S.: Yes, the two licenses are similar in spirit. Just not in legalese.



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