[WikiEN-l] Re: Legality of internet-encyclopedia.info ?
Fred Bauder
fredbaud at ctelco.net
Sat Mar 8 01:38:39 UTC 2003
I have added the suggested language to language.php and it is now reflected
on the edit page.
Fred
> From: Daniel Mayer <maveric149 at yahoo.com>
> Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 14:49:12 -0800
> To: wikien-l at wikipedia.org, fredbaud at ctelco.net
> Subject: Legality of internet-encyclopedia.info ?
>
> Is what Fred is doing even legal under the GNU FDL? All he is doing is
> mentioning in the first edit summary where the article came from - there is
> no mention of its source in the article itself.
>
> Doesn't our implementation of the GNU FDL require a link-back to the source
> Wikipedia article and a mention of the source in the article?
>
> IMO each article that is based on a Wikipedia article should have the
> following section at the end:
>
> ==Reference==
> *Text adapted from [http://www.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Wikipedia_article |
> Wikipedia]. Copied on {insert date that the content was copied here}
>
> --Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
>
> WikiKarma
> The Usual at [[March 5]]
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