Re: They didn't attach the GFDL!!!

For example see here
_http://www.answers.co
m/Johnson_ (http://www.answers.com
/Johnson) 
 
Answer.com has copied verbatim OUR work on President Andrew
Johnson and  
collated it all with various other biographical articles on
him.
 
In the section for our article which is quite near the
bottom of this page,  
not only do they *not* attribute it to any particular
authors, they also do  
*not* even cite the GFDL.
 
So if the Foundation isn't interested in suing them to
enforce it, then  
we're not left with anything that can be sued against.  The
*community* is  hardly 
likely to instigate a lawsuit against Answers.com for
what... breach of  
contract maybe?
 
Will Johnson



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2008/5/4  <WJhonsonaol.com>:

>  So if the Foundation isn't interested in suing them to
enforce it, then
>  we're not left with anything that can be sued against.
 The *community* is  hardly
>  likely to instigate a lawsuit against Answers.com for
what... breach of
>  contract maybe?
>
>
>  Will Johnson
>

Nyet straightforward copyright violation. If you don't
follow the
terms of the GFDL you are in violation of copyright.

That said the GFDL is such mess that it is near impossible
to do so.

-- 
geni

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>  So if the Foundation isn't interested in suing them to
enforce it, then
>  we're not left with anything that can be sued against.
 The *community* is  hardly
>  likely to instigate a lawsuit against Answers.com for
what... breach of
>  contract maybe?

What would the Foundation sue for? The foundation doesn't
own the
copyright. Only the authors can sue, and I expect they could
in this
case: Answers.com doesn't seem to be following the license.

In practice, however, I expect the only times anyone would
sue for not
following the GFDL is either if they really didn't like the
person
doing it (or what they were doing with it) and it was just a
way to
stop them, or if they had modified the content and not
released their
modifications under a free license and someone had a problem
with that
on ideological grounds (or, they simply liked the
modifications and
wanted to use them). No one is likely to sue for simple
copying, but
that doesn't make it any more legal.

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