[WikiEN-l] CAS Discourages Using SciFinder to Help Curate Wikipedia

Philip Sandifer snowspinner at gmail.com
Sat Mar 8 17:21:23 UTC 2008


On Mar 8, 2008, at 12:18 PM, Ken Arromdee wrote:
>
> Supposedly, the reason we don't like fair use images is that even  
> though they
> may be allowed for nonprofit uses, they mean that someone can't just  
> copy a
> Wikipedia article and use it for their own purposes, which may involve
> profit.

The reason we don't like fair use images is that we prefer to use free  
content where possible.

Please come back when you have succeeded in establishing a copyleft  
chemical indexing system comparable to CAS numbers.

-Phil



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