[Wikipedia-l] Preserving GFDL requirements when splitting articles

Mon Nov 21 17:13:47 UTC 2005

On 11/20/05, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:
> In a wiki without any mention of a license (I think c2.com falls
> in this category, and susning.nu certainly does), the wiki system
> itself silently implies that articles can be edited and refactored
> by other users, and that an entire text paragraph can be cut out
> of one article and pasted into another within the same wiki.
> People who save their contribution to any wiki can be assumed to
> have agreed to this "implicit wiki license".

And how to you reconcile this with the fact that there is a non
trivial amount of GFDLed content inserted into Wikipedia by someone
other than its copyright holder?