[Wikipedia-l] Crown Copyright and the GNU FDL

[Matthew Woodcraft]

Daniel Mayer wrote:
> "Where any of the Crown copyright items on this site are being republished or 
> copied to others, the source of the material must be identified and the 
> copyright status acknowledged."
> 
> In other words the Crown Copyright is viral.

That's not what people usually mean when they describe a licence as
viral. To be viral, it would have to require the material it is being
combined with to be licenced under the same terms.

I agree with your other points, though.

-M-