On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 10:56:41PM -0600, stuporglue wrote: > All your favorite scriptures are now yours to edit. That's right. If > there were ever commandments you didn't like, passages you thought > should have been added, or texts that could be made clearer, you can > now edit them yourselves! > Edit now! > The Book of Mormon: http://wikisource.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Mormon
The part that concerns me is at the bottom: ``Content is available under GNU Free Documentation License.'' Ummmmm... most of that content IS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. You can't apply a license to something without a copyright. Are these people trying to claim copyright over the Book of Mormon text that fell into the public domain decades ago, and then trying to impose a set of restrictions on that text (i.e., derivative works must fall under the same conditions, license statement must accompany copies, etc.)? The other part that concerns me are the chapter headings. The Church still holds a valid copyright over that text. wikisource.org appears to not only be violating the Church's copyright, but they are also attempting to relicense the Church's works without its permission! Note that I am not supporting copyright law; I'm just pointing out an apparent violation of that law. Mike
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