On Thu, 31 May 2012 17:12:58 +0200, Ted Unangst wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 11:11, Brett wrote: > > > Pursuant to a rights owner notice under the Digital Millennium Copyright > > Act (DMCA), the Wikimedia Foundation acted under the law and took down and > > restricted the content in question. A copy of the received notice can be > > > Reverse engineering necessary to have open source in the brave new world? > > PCI spec docs (and many others) are copyrighted. Maybe they should be, > maybe they shouldn't, but they are. > > As far as I know, the actual specs cannot be copyrighted (or it's > murky), but knowing wikipedia, somebody probably copied an entire > table from the doc and dropped it into the article. that's a no-no, > and not something I'd find nearly as alarming as "censorship".
Actually, the crime consisted in linking to a few PDFs located elsewhere. The last revision of the article to contain the links is: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conventional_PCI&oldid=405114605
