[Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] CAS and Wikipedia -- CAS agrees to help contribute

[Magnus Manske]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi,
>  I hope they realise that as Wikipedia is available under the GFDL, people
>  who use this data are able to use this information without a need to ask for
>  permission. When this is not understood by them and when they do not act
>  accordingly the CAS numbers are not to be used by the Wikipedias as they are
>  problematic. In the requirements for the inclusion of material the notion of
>  "Wikipedia only" has been soundly rejected on several occasions. This has
>  been underlined by the WMF board on several occasions.
>
>  So I hate to be the spoil sport but in my opinion the phrasing of this
>  permission does not give enough assurances that we can use this data.

Legally, I don't think it's out problem.

They agreed to let wikipedia use CAS numbers. Our conditions for
content are clearly labeled and widely known. Saying "Oh, we didn't
know" later won;t count much in court. No that their claim to the
numbers would have a firm stand anyway.

Personally, I think they know exactly what wikipedia is, and they
realized that we (or some similar project) would be their only
"competition" for an alternative numbering schema. So they thought, if
you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Which is fine with me :-)

Cheers,
Magnus