On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Toby Bartels wrote:
Oliver Pereira wrote:
This is the message I sent.
[Snipped!]
It's perfectly fine that Oliver sent a letter,
since he discovered and his letter was just from him.
We should send one more letter: a form letter
(or something that looks just as official ^_^)
that's worked out on [[meta:]] and can be used again.
I've had a reply from Russ McNeil of Malaspina Great Books. I was going to
forward his reply to the list, but then I had the thought that that would
probably be an infringement of *his* copyright, which would be quite
ironic in the circumstances. :)
Basically, he says that he supports the Wikipedia philosophy, and thought
that by acknowledging the source and linking back to the Wikipedia
articles he was dong everything he had to. He said he would check to see
if he needed to do more. (I think this means he didn't trust my statement
that he *did* need to do more!) So I think we should check his site again
later to make sure that he's making the necessary changes.
Another question, though: Does someone who creates a derived work from one
of our articles have to link back to the actual version of the article
that they used to create the derived work, or is linking to the current
version of the article acceptable?
Oliver
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| Oliver Pereira |
| Dept. of Electronics and Computer Science |
| University of Southampton |
| omp199(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk |
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