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> The fact that anyone can make an exact Wikipedia clone thanks to the free licensing of their software and content? Wikipedia could change that at any time.
by zmmmmm 15y ago
> The fact that anyone can make an exact Wikipedia clone thanks to the free licensing of their software and content?
Wikipedia could change that at any time. Old versions of Wikipedia could be distributed but they wouldn't be up to date any more.
- nitrogen 15y agoActually, Wikipedia can't change the license on existing articles to a more restrictive one, as copyright in the articles remains with the mass of editors that wrote them. In fact, they had to get FSF to add a special exemption just for them to an updated version of the GNU FDL so they could add the less-restrictive CC to their set of licenses.