[Foundation-l] Baidupedia copyvio collections

Thu Jun 12 12:00:27 UTC 2008

I agree that this is not as bad for us as for a random website.
However, yo should think of the fact that the edited versions of the
gfdl text of wikipedia now are no longer free, since there is no
license information. That means a missed chance for free information.
That would make it worth while for *me*.

Kind regards,
Lodewijk

2008/6/12 Henning Schlottmann <h.schlottmann op gmx.net>:
> Titan Deng wrote:
>> We Chinese Wikipedians are now collecting Baidupedia articles which were
>> copied from Chinese Wikipedia.
>
> What is all that copyright, lawyer, enforcement, loose face stuff about?
>
> Last time I checked, Wikipedia was about disseminating free knowledge.
> Unfortunately the projects are blocked by the Chinese government, so
> people of the peoples republic have no access to our content, not the
> the parts that are deemed dangerous by the government, not to the other
> parts. Now someone takes at least some of the uncontroversial content
> and makes it available by copying into Baidu.
>
> Of course it would be nice if they would acknowledge the license and
> give proper attribution. But they can't - Wikipedia is banned and they
> can't name this source.
>
> But as our mission is to distribute our knowledge, I believe this is the
> second best way to distribute our articles, and the best available until
> the forces that are open up the Great Firewall.
>
> Ciao Henning [[user:h-stt]]
>
>
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