Hi Gerard, pls remain polite and dont call names.
teun On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected] > wrote: > Hoi, > You are out of your mind. The author of the book, a respected Wikipedian, > can relicense it to anything he likes. > Thanks, > GerardM > > 2009/1/28 geni <[email protected]> > > > 2009/1/28 Michael Peel <[email protected]>: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > The author of Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, John Broughton, has just > > > uploaded the book to Wikipedia under the GFDL, see: > > > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual > > > > > > My reaction when I spotted this was: great, but shouldn't this be on > > > Wikibooks? Part of the author's response to this was that "the > > > agreement between O'Reilly Media and the Wikimedia Foundation was > > > that this would be at /Wikipedia/ ... [do] not remove it from this > > > site without a /lot/ more discussion among a /lot/ of other people." > > > > > > Did the WMF really make an agreement saying that the content should > > > be on Wikipedia, rather than a WMF project or simply under a free > > > license? > > > > > > Does anyone want to weigh in with comments on this on the talk page? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Mike Peel > > > > Copyright issues mean that it will be heading for deletio n once we > > switch toi CC-BY-SA-3.0. > > > > > > -- > > geni > > > > _______________________________________________ > > foundation-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
