People who are using the license are establishing custom and practice which
is also relevant. I cannot imagine archiving on my site the past history of
a Wikipedia page, the link back to Wikipedia gives access to that. As to law
being practical, we all try.
Fred Bauder
From: steve vertigo
<utilitymuffinresearch(a)yahoo.com>
Reply-To: wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 01:54:10 -0700 (PDT)
To: wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: Use of Wikipedia articles at
Malaspina.com
I'm in no way an expert, but looking at the
practical implications of
such a requirement, it would seem that such a
requirement would make the
GFDL useless for most purposes. Hardly any webmaster
would archive every
past version of a page.
Timwi
Civil Law is not meant to be practical. It's meant
merely to be a roadsign that says, "our stuff, our
rules" -- so that later it can look like a breach of
contract, and money can be restituted from the
prostituting party.
Ironically, the notion that "your not supposed to make
$$ off of X" (as a claim) is kinda antithetical to
the whole notion of lawsuits, which tend to be about
"only Ims supposed to make money off X". And in the
end, regardless of GNUFDL, a civil win would be
represented (symbolically) in dough. Otherwise why
would anyone bother forking out for a lair?
-S-
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