[Foundation-l] GNU FDL 1.3 released!

geni geniice at gmail.com
Mon Nov 3 16:11:11 UTC 2008


2008/11/3 John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com>:
> 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
>

We don't offer prominent facilities to edit anything other than text.

-- 
geni



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