>
> Yea, I was erring on the side of caution here. Any fully automated import
> would have to skip any free text, because it *might* be protected.
>

I think  there is a danger to be overly cautious. The purpose of infoboxes
is to express knowledge in a consise way. One might want to add an
additional protection by refusing any text that consists of more than 3
sentences or a given number of words (20?). But free form text like (from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysql):

License <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_license> GNU General Public
License <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License> (version
2, with linking exception<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPL_linking_exception>)
or proprietary EULA <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EULA>

is not creative and thus not copyright protected.

Gregor
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