Lightning wrote:
I really wish wikipedia had used the public domain
as a license.
Public domain is /not/ a license. It is the lack of a
license.
therefore everything would be able to be used
everywhere.
And then Encarta gets a huge free update by importing
all our work into their encyclopedia and then /not/
allowing us, or anybody else for that matter, to use
their improvements as a basis to further improve the
text. The whole cycle of positive feedback gets sucked
dry by parasites who take our text and enslaves it
under a proprietary license. Copyleft protects the
freedom of the content itself.
Information is already free; with copyleft we are
ensuring that it's presentation will also be free.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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