Re: [Foundation-l] Copyright issues of wikimedia projects
Daniel Mayer <maveric149-/[email protected]> Mon, 31 May 2004 17:26:00 -0700 (PDT)
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--- Andre Engels <[email protected]> wrote: > It's NOT free, you say? So, I may not use it freely? You DO have a strange > definition of 'free'. Not libre, which in this context means it is only half free. Yes, you can *use* it freely, but the content itself is not free. > > Decrease that freedom? How when anything from a derivative work can be > > reincorporated back into the original? In what way does that decrease the > > freedom of the original document? > > By restricting how it may be used. What other way could there be to decrease > freedom? Those restrictions are designed to ensure the freedom of the content, meaning it can not be controled. -- Daniel Mayer (aka mav) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/