[Foundation-l] GFDL Q&A update and question

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/1/8 Brian <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu>:
> http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20081008/
>
> These subcollections obviously pass the threshold for creativity. A court
> case on telephone directories, which is simply a two or three column output,
> has very little applicability to the complex formats published by the WMF.
>
> I also recognize this to be a legal grey area, and my opinion unfounded.
>
> But I believe this would have significant consequences, no?

That's not obvious to me at all. I think anyone putting together a
collection of dumps of Wikipedia would do so in essentially the same
way.