[Foundation-l] commercial use of wikipedia content

[Huib Laurens]

Hello,

If I read your example there is something missing, its very important
that you also add the license and the note that everybody can use the
content for personal or commercional use according the terms stated in
the license.

I don't think you can change the license and when you sell it, it
would stay under a free license.

Huib

2009/12/27, Istvan Soos <istvan.soos op gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I'm evaluating our legal options around commercially using wikipedia
> content, if this is not the right forum, please let me know / forward
> the question. It might be that the method I describe is not legally
> possible, so if there is any similar situation that does or does not
> work, please let me know either. I'd like to play safe in this field
> and avoid potential issues.
>
> For the sake of example we would like to automatically convert the
> page content to a different text and different format (e.g.
> automatically create text extracts and compile it into a pdf document)
> and sell it as part of a subscription service or even better as a
> standalone product. We include all the attributions / links wherever
> possible, and mark that the source of the product is Wikipedia. What
> else are we required to do before the sell can happen? Is there any
> fee or percentage that shall go back to mediawiki foundation in such
> cases? Can we restrict the copy or re-distribution of such product?
> For the later, I suppose there is nothing we can do, however this
> seems to ruin the whole business model, doesn't it?
>
> Thank you for your help,
>    Istvan
>
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