Fw: [Wikipedia-l] The Defendent

From: "Delirium" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 5:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] The Defendent


> Fred Bauder wrote:
>
> >>From http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_FDL
> >
> >"...the text contained in Wikipedia is licensed to the public under the
GNU
> >Free Documentation License (GFDL)"
> >
> >This statement gives us standing as licensor, the defendent is a licensee
> >under the GFDL.
> >
> >
> That statement is correct, but Wikipedia is not doing the licensing.
> The text contained within Wikipedia has been individually licensed by
> its authors under the GFDL.  Wikipedia collects all these GFDL texts on
> one website, but others are free to do so as well.
>
> Note also that some text on Wikipedia isn't even created by
> Wikipedians--it's an import of pre-existing GFDL works from elsewhere.
> We can use it, just as anyone else can, as long as we follow the license.
>
> -Mark

It is still a contract between whoever invokes the license (as the licensor)
and whoever benefits from the license (the licensee) as Fred suggests.

Alex from Brooklyn