[WikiEN-l] Our content gets *everywhere*

[Anthony]

On 8/18/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18/08/07, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> > On 8/18/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Maybe, but that's no reason not to at least ask them :-)
>
> > Sure, but ask them what?  The sentence was contributed anonymously, so
> > there's no one to credit.  I guess you could ask them to release the
> > box cover under the GFDL, and if there was actually some use to that I
> > think it'd be a good idea.  But it's just a box cover.
>
> I was thinking to at least credit Wikipedia, since the text was
> written by an anonymous contributor.
>
Why not at least credit Microsoft, since the text was written by an
anonymous contributor?

> > I vote someone scans in the box cover and puts it up on in the [[Nokia
> > 770 Internet Tablet]] article as a GFDL image.  Then hope they sue,
> > just for the irony or whatever it'd be called.  :)
>
> The Wikipedia copyright police are a bit too humorless for that to stand :-)
>
Yeah, frankly I'm not even sure if I was serious.