Hi,
I have some GFDL questions with respect to using Wikipedia content in chatbotgame.com. This is a game that rewards players for contributing effective chat rules.
To encourage more people to chat and play, I'm thinking of adding chat rules extracted automatically from Wikipedia content.
So I have some questions:
(1) The GFDL license makes reference to several concepts that seem to have no relevance to Wikipedia; namely, "secondary section", "invariant section", "cover section", and "title page". Is this correct? Presumably, I can just ignore those parts of the license?
(2) Adding chat rules obtained from Wikipedia content will likely result in many players adding rules that are derived from Wikipedia content (e.g., you might copy a chatbot response that comes from Wikipedia into your rule). And so it seems like player chat rules would also need to be under the GFDL. Is that correct?
(3) But if player rules are under the GFDL, would I need to make all such rules available? What if a player deletes a rule? Must the deleted rule still be available as part of an xml dump say to satisfy the GFDL?
(4) If a player modifies a rule, must the previous version be made available as part of an xml dump?
(5) What constitutes a derivative work? Rules in this game are scored, so does the score count as part of a derivative work or can it be omitted in an xml dump? Clearly, players would like to retain a competitive advantage even if their rules are under the GFDL and hiding rule scores from others would help.
(6) Is an xml dump of chat rules at regular intervals or on request enough to satisfy the GFDL?
Amir