[WikiEN-l] Concise Print Wikipedia (WARNING)

[Ray Saintonge]

zero 0000 wrote:

>I haven't really been paying attention, but it seems like the
>possibility of a printed snapshot of Wikipedia is under discussion.
>
>I hope you are all very very VERY familiar with the disastrous
>experiences of Eric Weisstein when he gave a publisher permission to
>print a snapshot of his online mathematics encyclopedia.
>
>See  http://mathworld.wolfram.com/docs/legal.html .
>
I don't see that as possible unless the contributors have signed away 
their copyrights.  In previous discussions about possibly changing from 
FDL to something else, there was a strong feeling that getting these 
rights from all who had them would be impossible.

Ec