On 3/19/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Oskar Sigvardsson wrote:
Am I crazy or are they violating the GFDL in that link? I mean they publish a few complete articles without mentioning the authours and without providing the text of the GFDL. God, it would be sweet to sue these assholes (pardon me' french). Can't we atleast send a Jack Thompson-esque threatening letter?
They'd probably claim "fair use" for commentary purposes.
1. They're probably quoting a little too much to be termed "fair use".
but
2. We have credibility, they don't.
Wikimedia Foundation shouldn't sue them for the same reason a guy in a nice house wearing nice clothes and with a reputation for fairness doesn't go out in the yard with a shotgun and blast a dog for shitting on his lawn.