[Foundation-l] Agreement between WMF and O'Reilly Media about Wikipedia: The Missing Manual on Wikipedia?

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
You are out of your mind. The author of the book, a respected Wikipedian,
can relicense it to anything he likes.
Thanks,
      GerardM

2009/1/28 geni <geniice at gmail.com>

> 2009/1/28 Michael Peel <email at mikepeel.net>:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > The author of Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, John Broughton, has just
> > uploaded the book to Wikipedia under the GFDL, see:
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual
> >
> > My reaction when I spotted this was: great, but shouldn't this be on
> > Wikibooks? Part of the author's response to this was that "the
> > agreement between O'Reilly Media and the Wikimedia Foundation was
> > that this would be at /Wikipedia/ ... [do] not remove it from this
> > site without a /lot/ more discussion among a /lot/ of other people."
> >
> > Did the WMF really make an agreement saying that the content should
> > be on Wikipedia, rather than a WMF project or simply under a free
> > license?
> >
> > Does anyone want to weigh in with comments on this on the talk page?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mike Peel
>
> Copyright issues mean that it will be heading for deletio n once we
> switch toi CC-BY-SA-3.0.
>
>
> --
> geni
>
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