[WikiEN-l] using wikipedia content to seed a social startup

[geni]

On 5/14/07, Amir Michail <amichail at gmail.com> wrote:
> But how can I detect modified Wikipedia content?  Again, presumably, I
> would take action upon hearing a complaint from Wikipedia?

> My service has private and public user data.  Since such a complaint
> would only arise from public data, I suppose I could switch the
> license for that specific shared data item to GDFL or give the user
> the option of making that data item private perhaps.


You are in effect asking for legal advice which isn't going to happen.

I would however suggest you read:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License
and
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c105:H.R.2281:

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geni