[Wikipedia-l] planetmath.org

Wed Nov 7 18:29:46 UTC 2001

<lsanger at nupedia.com> writes:

> This is all great news about MathWorld.  

Well it would be, if the legal settlement had been something other than
"Eric gets the shaft from CRC publishing".  From a wikipedia standpoint, this
is a hard lesson to the contributors of mathworld that their contributions
need protection to remain free.
(http://www.mathworld.com/erics_commentary.html)

Their new contribution copyright waiver makes me feel mildly nauseous.
(http://www.mathworld.com/permission_form.html)
-- 
Gareth Owen
"Wikipedia does rock.  By the count on the "brilliant prose" page, there
are 14 not-bad articles so far" -- Larry Sanger (12/1/01)