Agreed with Geoffrey, and I never cease to be amazed at how folks find a way to say "zOMG! This Can't Work!" instead of "OK, let's make this work."
We've seen a lot of that the last couple of days on this list. philippe __________________ Philippe|Wiki philippe.w...@gmail.com [[en:User:Philippe]] On Jan 28, 2009, at 10:08 AM, Geoffrey Plourde wrote: > I don't think that either the Foundation or Mr. Broughton will be > complaining. Drop it. > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Klaus Graf <klausg...@googlemail.com> > To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 7:59:15 AM > Subject: [Foundation-l] Help-book made available in en Wikipedia > against Licensing Policy > > At > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Title_Page_and_Licensing_Information > > we read: > > "Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document > under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or > any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with the > Invariant Section being the "Author and Publisher Information" and no > Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is > included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License"." > > This is clearly not compatible with the "official" policy at > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights > > "If you contribute material to Wikipedia, you thereby license it to > the public under the GFDL (with no invariant sections, front-cover > texts, or back-cover texts)." > > On the same page there is a self-contradiction to these clear words: > > "Under Wikipedia's current copyright conditions, and with the current > facilities of the MediaWiki software, it is only possible to include > in Wikipedia external GFDL materials that contain invariant sections > or cover texts, if all of the following apply, > You are the copyright holder of these external GFDL materials (or: you > have the explicit, i.e. written, permission of the copyright holder to > do what follows); > The length and nature of these invariant sections and cover texts does > not exceed what can be placed in an edit summary; > You are satisfied that these invariant sections and cover texts are > not listed elsewhere than in the "page history" of the page where > these external materials are placed; > You are satisfied that further copies of Wikipedia content are > distributed under the standard GFDL application of "with no Invariant > Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts" (in > other words, for the copies derived from wikipedia, you agree that > these parts of the text contributed by you will no longer be > considered as "invariant sections" or "cover texts" in the GFDL > sense); > The original invariant sections and/or cover texts are contained in > the edit summary of the edit with which you introduce the thus GFDLed > materials in wikipedia (so, that if "permanent deletion" would be > applied to that edit, both the thus GFDLed material and its invariant > sections and cover texts are jointly deleted). > Seen the stringent conditions above, it is very desirable to replace > GFDL texts with invariant sections (or with cover texts) by original > content without invariant sections (or cover texts) whenever > possible." > > I cannot see that the quoted copyright notice fits these conditions. > > Klaus Graf > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l