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

[teun spaans]

Hi Gerard,

pls remain polite and dont call names.

teun

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com
> wrote:

> 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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