Wolfgang Jeltsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "I grant anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without > > any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law, > > or explicitly claimed in the work for some clearly identifiable > > portion of the work. No warranty of accuracy or fitness-for-purpose > > is implied for this work." > > Does this mean that you have to adhere to the licenses of cited material?
I don't know. In the absence of information to the contrary, I suppose yes. One cannot assume free rights over other people's works. However, if you have legal certainty that you do not need to adhere to a licence in certain situations, that is up to you. > What if you have just a short citation. In Germany, for example, you have > "the right to cite" so that you don't have to accept any licenses for small > portions of copyrighted work. (I suppose that this is similar in other > countries.) Even if you have the right to cite small portions of copyrighted works, I expect the law might require some form of attribution for those quotations? I don't know. But these are the kind of conditions that cannot be waived by a general grant of unconditional usage. However, my suggested text is meant to imply that if you add a quotation to the wiki, you are the one who is responsible to attribute it correctly, and to identify if it has a more restrictive license, or alternatively that the quotation is sufficiently small that no attribution/license is required. The idea is that the /reader/ can be as free as possible to do what they like with the text, because anything non-free will be clearly identified for them. Thus the burden of identifying non-free material falls on the /author/. > Longer parts of other work should better not included but linked to, > shouldn't it? Indeed. Regards, Malcolm _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell