[Wikitech-l] [WikiEN-l] defining Free Encyclopedia

Fri Aug 20 21:23:55 UTC 2004

On Fri, 2004-20-08 at 12:58 -0400, Michael Becker wrote:
> I'm forwarding my message to the wikitech list because I think this
> might be of more interest to you people than wikipedians at large.
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Michael Becker <mbecker at jumpingjackweb.com>
> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 09:43:09 -0400
> Subject: RE: [WikiEN-l] defining Free Encyclopedia
> To: wikien-l at wikipedia.org
> 
> though, as long as there is a hard line drawn between copyrighted and
> GPL material, it should be easy enough to remove. If we don't
> facilitate the easy removal of this content, the wikipedia is no 

The opposite of copyrighted is "public domain". Works covered by the
GPL, and the FDL ARE copyrighted. It is copyright law that provides for
the legal backing of the GPL/FDL (and for that matter, _any_ license).