GFDL violation: Difference between revisions

GFDL violation (edit)

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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].