Posted 2010-02-17 8:29 AM (#1779) Subject: Wikipedia licensing
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Maybe it doesn't really matter but it's a small glitch.
The current text under any material borrowed from Wikipedia says:
Copyright Wikipedia
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "".
So:
1) Wikipedia is not the copyright holder for the articles - the authors are ones.
2) GNU FDL requires more than a link when from re-users - it requires a list of all or at least 5 major authors.
3) For some time now Wikipedia's been publishing articles under two licences: aforementioned GNU FDL and Creative Commons. For the latter a link to the original source (in this case - an article on Wikipedia) is enough. The re-user can decide to which of the licenses to apply.
So the only thing which should be done to make everything all right is to change the license name in the box to "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License" (see Wikipedia footer and Terms of Use for more details).
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