[WikiEN-l] Copyright?

Andrew Gray shimgray at gmail.com
Thu May 4 10:52:57 UTC 2006


On 03/05/06, Anthony DiPierro <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
> On 5/3/06, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS/en/Author%27s_claim_of_license is
> > the standard reply to "someone keeps tagging my material as copyvio,
> > but I wrote it, damnit"
> >
> >From that page: "In order to accept into Wikipedia content which is
> published on another website, we usually require a clear statement
> from the author of the content that the content is being licensed
> under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) [...].
> This statement must come from an email address that we can clearly
> recognize as being from the operator of the website, or be in reply to
> a message sent to the operator of the website."
>
> Umm, what if the operator of the website isn't the author of the content?

Then we rephrase the boilerplate :-)

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- Andrew Gray
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