Re: Writing GNUstep book on wikibooks

[Yen-Ju Chen]

> From: MJ Ray <mjr@dsl.pipex.com>
> To: discuss-gnustep@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Writing GNUstep book on wikibooks
> Date: 05 Sep 2004 19:40:50 GMT
>
> "Yen-Ju Chen" <yjchenx@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >   I just found the wikibooks project
> > (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page)
>
> Please do not use Wikibooks. They are not free software.

 I'm not aware of this,
 but the website said it is powered by "MediaWiki",
 which is a GPL project: http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net/.

> In particular,
> you may not use their example code in free software. This seems a
> particular problem for an instruction book.

 If it is true, it is useless,
 but the copyright of wikibooks is GFDL.
 (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Copyrights)
 It seems to me that there should be no problem to reuse the code.

 Anyway, this idea seems not a popular one.

 Yen-Ju

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