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

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> The Google terms of service item 8 does seem to present a problem. here it
> is:
>
> *8.*      *License to Google.*
[snip]
> But it also appears to conflict with this item of the same TOS:
>
> 5.1.  *No Google Ownership of User Content.*  Google claims no ownership or
> control over any content submitted, posted or displayed by you on or through
[snip]

You've granted them an expansive license (which you don't actually
have the right to grant for most freely licensed content found
elsewhere) and they disclaim ownership.  License != ownership, so it's
not a conflict .. even if does seem somewhat confusing.