Re: Legal question

No. They are different. See

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/sa/1.0/

And full text at

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/sa/1.0/legalcode

It would mean (as it does at Wikinfo) that you cannot copy or use the
database dump as a whole under the GNUFDL but would have to for those
particular pages use the Creative Commons license. It does not make the site
not open source but means that only the individual articles can be copied
reused and modified, not the site as a whole. A result Wikipedia rejects.

Fred

> From: Optim <optim81-/[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 03:14:10 -0800 (PST)
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Wikilegal-l] Legal question
> 
> A new user in English Wikipedia wrote on his/her
> userpage that all of his/her contributions are
> licensed under the Creative Commons ShareAlike
> license. But in Wikipedia we use the GFDL. is
> this ok?
> 
> --Optim
> 
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