[Foundation-l] Wolf Mountain MediaWiki Appliances Released

Thu Jul 27 08:18:28 UTC 2006

Folks,

Jeff is actually trying to build a business based on reusing Wikipedia
content, and yet a good half of these posts attack him for making use of the
content.  Nowhere in our charter does it say that we're building an
immutable work.  Let people who want to tweak it, rename it, change my
username to a foul word, rename all mentions of Jimmy Wales to "Evil
Dictator" or whatever do so.  The source material is Wikipedia.  The end
users can't call theirs Wikipedia, since that's the WMF's trademark.  Beyond
that, we should be encouraging all uses --

On 7/26/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/26/06, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:
> > Yes of course, but then the article history shows that someone
> > else had edited the text after I was there, and the diff (included
> > in the distribution or available by link to the Wikipedia website)
> > shows exactly what my contribution was.  Does your filter program
> > show its own modifications in the article history?
>
> The GFDL doesn't require that a distributor make every previous
> version available.
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