[Wikipedia-l] Stallman on fair use

[Toby Bartels]

Maveric149 wrote:

>Camembert wrote:

>>This is perhaps a little off-topic, but is there a
>>quick and easy explanation of why the Wikipedia
>>is released under the GFDL and not into the public
>>domain? Somebody asked me the other day, and I
>>realised that I didn't actually know.

The answer is so that people like mav will contribute without fear.
All of my contributions are free from any restriction whatsoever
(except those created by previous editors, of course);
see <http://math.ucr.edu/~toby/copyleft/>.


-- Toby