[Foundation-l] Baidupedia copyvio collections

[David Gerard]

2008/6/12 Henning Schlottmann <h.schlottmann at gmx.net>:

> Of course it would be nice if they would acknowledge the license and
> give proper attribution. But they can't - Wikipedia is banned and they
> can't name this source.


They don't actually have to name Wikipedia - they do have to name the
original writers and keep the text under GFDL. Doing that would be
sufficient.

Perhaps they're afraid we'll say nice things about them if they do? :-)

Baidu has a US presence, doesn't it? Can they be approached as a first step?


- d.