[Foundation-l] Baidupedia copyvio collections

Thu Jun 12 18:50:14 UTC 2008

2008/6/12 Dan Rosenthal <swatjester at gmail.com>:

>> I may be grossly misreading what you just wrote above, or just not
>> being well enough informed about all the statements about our
>> licencing system on-wiki, but just to clarify; what precise
>> "assurances" are you talking about?

> The assurances that I am talking about are the statements that "by clicking
> submit you are agreeing to license your submission under the GFDL". The GFDL
> requires attribution. By requiring that our contributors use the GFDL (or
> CC-BY-SA, or any other attribution required license), we are giving an
> assurance to our contributors that their work will remain attributed to
> them, and if it is not attributed to them they shall have some sort of
> remedies available to them.

Whoa.

Saying "you agree to license it" is *really* not the same as "you
agree to license it and we will enforce that licence for you", and I'm
not sure we can assume everyone interprets it as being the latter.

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- Andrew Gray
 andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk