[Foundation-l] Wikipedia content in SMS

[effe iets anders]

Ehm, well, I'm not sure of that :) When Google does something (and
they only send the first line of their search, which *might* be
wikipedia) it doesn't mean that it is per se OK. You very well noticed
already the license problem the GFDL offers. When they do something
like this, they might indeed risk that someone sues them, but with my
limited knowledge of law I cannot say whether they make a good chance.
I'd advise them to at least seek legal advice of their own from a
lawyer familiar with Open Licenses and especially GNU-licenses (read:
GFDL). Please do not assume that it will be ok, and be always very
very carefull when giving advice on legal area's to companies.

I don't know how the trademark issue is exactly, you might want to
suggest them to contact the Wikimedia Foundation Office for that.

Best Regards,

Lodewijk

2007/7/2, Ivan Lanin <ivanlanin at gmail.com>:
> Thanks. So, basically, the content provider only have to provide the
> URL of the source. Ok, I'll tell them then.
>
> --
> Ivan Lanin
>
> On 7/2/07, C F <shmaltz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Google has this here in the US, you just send a text to GOOGL (46645)
> > with the keyword define and it will retrun the definition in lots of
> > cases it will be en.wp.
> > For example sending: "Define:asterisk pbx" returns from google:
> > "Glossary: Asterisk PBX: Asterisk is an open source software
> > implementation of a telephone private branch exchange (PBX). Like any
> > PBX it allows a number of attached telephones to m... Source:
> > en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterisk_PBX"
> > The above is broken up in 2 messages.
> > Hope this helps you.
>
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