[Wikipedia-l] Re: Crown Copyright and the GNU FDL

[Jimmy Wales]

Daniel Mayer wrote:
> Light rewriting = moving some phrases around and changing some words with 
> equivalent words just enough to pass an exact phrase Google test. Nothing 
> major or too time consuming. 

I think that's not really the right approach.  Facts aren't
copyrightable, but particular presentations are.  Simply moving stuff
around and changing some words created a derivative work, rather than
an original work based on information gleaned from their work.

It's a gray area, and we surely want to stay very much on the "clean"
side of that fuzzy line.

--Jimbo