[Foundation-l] GNU FDL 1.3 released!

John Vandenberg jayvdb at gmail.com
Mon Nov 3 16:08:18 UTC 2008


On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 3:03 AM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/11/3 Petr Kadlec <petr.kadlec at gmail.com>:
>> I'm finishing a "licenses on Wikipedia" speech I'm going to have
>> tomorrow. I want to check something in the GFDL text. I get 404… and
>> after a while, refresh shows "GNU Free Documentation License, Version
>> 1.3, 3 November 2008"… :-)
>>
>> Going to check the changes… and possibly rewrite some parts of my
>> presentation :-/
>>
>> -- [[cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]]
>
>
>
> "Massive Multiauthor Collaboration Site" (or "MMC Site") means any
> World Wide Web server that publishes copyrightable works and also
> provides prominent facilities for anybody to edit those works. A
> public wiki that anybody can edit is an example of such a server. A
> "Massive Multiauthor Collaboration" (or "MMC") contained in the site
> means any set of copyrightable works thus published on the MMC site.
>
> This could be a problem with anything that isn't text such as images
> videos and sounds.

I dont see why.  It doesnt mention text specifically.  images, videos,
sounds, sheet music, whatever ... are all copyrightable works.  What
is the problem you are seeing?

--
John Vandenberg



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