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

Dan Collins en.wp.st47 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 28 17:36:52 UTC 2008


On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>wrote:

> > No read the Terms of service "8.      License to Google." is not
> > compatible with the GFDL. Same reason you can't upload GFDL content to
> > youtube.
>
> That's the part you're never going to be able to get around however
> much legalese you through around.
>
> Nathan, you need to remove the content immeadiately.
>
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Amazing how the Knol, hailed as a competitor to Wikipedia, has so quickly
began stealing content from Wikipedia's contributors, faking the license
terms, and essentially plagiarizing en masse.

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