In a message dated 4/24/2009 4:34:04 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
Plus, 350 probably way undercounts the number of copyviolations. There are probably many more than that in Wikipedia articles alone. My own feeling is that there should be a way to present wp articles on Knol that complies with copyright (by not changing the copyright status, reproducing the GFDL license notice, etc.), but I don't think any of the WP articles on Knol do that currently anyway.>> ---------------------------------- When there is no repurcussion, people will do what they will ;) Does the WF want to start sending cease-and-desist letters based on mirrors not displaying the license link? Or on mirrors not specifying "From the Wikipedia article..." with a link back or something? I don't know if they do, but I can't see what recourse they are going to have if they don't and then after some time suddently decide they will start doing it. There is a certain understanding in the law that if you do nothing about a situation that you know about for long enough, then you can't any longer. As far as reproducing WP pages at Knol, there are several copyright choices you can choose, none of them are the GFDL. However I think you'd be in pretty safe waters if at the top of your Knol you stated something like this: "This Knol, regardless of what the sidebar might say, is licensed under the GFDL. This statement supercededes any other statement about the licensing." That makes it pretty clear and displays your exact intent. I doubt anyone is going to sue you over it. Will Johnson **************The Average US Credit Score is 692. See Yours in Just 2 Easy Steps!(http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1221421330x1201417418/aol?redi r=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072&hmpgID=62&bcd=Ap rilAvgfooter424NO62) _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
