With respect to material _not_ taken from WP, are we going to accept material with some of the CC licenses? Even WP does for illustrations, I think. (Not _all_ the CC licenses, probably) . We'd obviously have to indicate what, but I think we intend to indicate sourcing anyway. And I think when we edit something from WP, we should explicitly indicate what part is from WP (and all PD sources, for that matter). I know it (unfortunately) isn't done on WP
On 11/1/06, Darren Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 5:39 AM +0000 11/1/06, luke brandt wrote: > >Peter Hitchmough wrote: > > > I have restored the GFDL copyright and copyright logo into the wiki. It > >> was a config issue. > >> > >> I am busy extending Wiki code to authoritatively track articles imported > >> from WP. For all unedited articles and articles first imported from WP > >> the templates will be automagically included. > >> > > > --Peter > > > >Sorry if I missed this, but has any policy been decided on whether we, > >on our part, allow 'fair use' or are we to strictly adhere to the GFDL. > > If we are copying content verbatim or almost verbatim from Wikipedia, > then there is no point for discussion; its GFDL or the highway. The > fact is that the GFDL is giving us extra rights to use Wikipedia > content that we otherwise wouldn't have under plain copyright law, so > we accept the GFDL or we don't copy the content, period. The only > way we can use the Wikipedia content and not be subject to the GFDL > is if we are only doing things with it that vanilla copyright law > allows. For example, if we completely rewrite the articles, so that > we present the information using our own words instead of theirs, > then that is fine. As for "fair use", that involves maybe copying 1 > or 2 sentences from an article, with attributions. Copy more actual > Wikipedia text than such a minimum, and its only the GFDL that allows > this, under its criteria. -- Darren Duncan > _______________________________________________ > Citizendium-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l > -- David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. _______________________________________________ Citizendium-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l
