GFDL violation: Difference between revisions

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A GFDL vilation is a violation of the GNU Free Documentation License.

Many GFDL violations occur when other GFDL corpus access providers fail to provide links to source materials, although the licence requires users to "Preserve the network location, if any, given in the Document" when they republish GFDL text that has been published by other providers, such as Wikipedia, the largest and best known source of GFDL content on the net.

The Inquirer ran an article on this which asked for email regarding violations.

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-'''[[GFDL]] violation'''s occur frequently especially at [[Wikipedia]] which has a policy of forcing other [[GFDL corpus access provider]]s to provide links to itself if any text is similar to any other GFDL text that has been published via [[Wikipedia]] (which legally and technically is only a user interface).
+A [[GFDL]] vilation is a violation of the [[GNU]] Free Documentation License.
-[http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=16551 The Inquirer] ran an article on this which asked for [mailto:fcassia@sdf.lonestar.org email regarding violations].  It seems inevitable that [[Wikimedia]] will be reported for such violations.
+Many '''[[GFDL]]''' violations occur when other [[GFDL corpus access provider]]s fail to provide links to source materials, although the licence requires users to "Preserve the network location, if any, given in the Document" when they republish [[GFDL]] text that has been published by other providers, such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia], the largest and best known source of [[GFDL]] content on the net.
+[http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=16551 The Inquirer] ran an article on this which asked for [mailto:fcassia@sdf.lonestar.org email regarding violations].