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

Anthony wikimail at inbox.org
Sat Jan 10 13:22:40 UTC 2009


On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:

> Anthony wrote:
>
> > My complaint was that the WMF was (and still is) copying and
> > distributing my copyrighted content in a manner other than that
> > expressly provided under any license I have granted them.
>
> Apart from the "expressly" provided (GFDL), there is the tradition
> of how Wikipedia and other wikis "have always worked", namely that
> we sometimes cut-and-paste text between articles without fully
> attributing the original author.  This is how wikis work, and if
> you don't like it, you better not contribute your text.


I've stopped.


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