21 Oct
2010
21 Oct
'10
1:44 p.m.
Tony Duell [ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk] wrote:
I wonder
how the authors of that/those wikipedia articles feel about
this? I know
I'd be pretty annoyed if somedy did that with something I'd written.
If you post something on Wikipedia it remains yours but you've given the
world
a licence to do whatever the creative commons lincence and/or GNU docs
licence
allows them to do.
Which (I think) means that they can print it off in a book (as long as
there's
an appropriate attribuiton).
I'm not that bothered so I've not read the licences in detail (but I
would if
I were going to copy articles wholesale and sell them ...). In general,
if you
write something on Wikipedia it looks like you're trying to make it
available
to the world, so it's no big surprise to me that someone has done that.
That said, if I bought a book that turned out to be a reprint of one of
more
Wikipedia articles and it wasn't pretty clear up front that that was
going to
be the case, I'd certainly be miffed. But if I were the author of all
(or some)
of any of those articles, I don't think I'd be justified in complaining
much.
Antonio