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

[Ray Saintonge]

Amir Michail wrote:

>On 5/14/07, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at waterwiki.info> wrote:
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>>It is only the articles which have been imported from Wikipedia which must remain under the GFDL. They may be modified by users or in an automatic way, as you put it.
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>>What you do with respect to the original content of your own users is between you and them, however if you offer Wikipedia content to them to modify that must remain under the GFDL.
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>What does "if you offer Wikipedia content to them to modify" mean?  Do
>you mean *modify easily* as in providing an edit button say for that
>Wikipedia content?
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Whether something is easy to modify is a function of the software that 
you use for making the modifications.

>Even if I don't import any wikipedia content at all, some users may
>still (manually) copy and modify wikipedia content (or content from
>any other source).  Presumably this would fall under fair use anyway?
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Wikipedia content is Wikipedia content.  It doesn't matter that it has 
come from a re-user of the content, or whether the re-user has given the 
proper credits.

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