Plagiarism and probable CC-BY-SA violation by Oxford University Press, but hey, Wikipedian text passes their editorial process, must be for the money text, no?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-02-25/Op-ed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-02-25/Op-ed
"all over the world, doing important ebola work" is going to be my new default /away message.
Mark Holmquist at 2015-02-28T16:12:37Z
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Oh, god, let the pretend lawyers' comments begin.
"it isn't the WMF legal team who could sue because WMF do not own the text" I guess so.
"at most the chapter by those authors would be released under a free licence" OK, sure.
"they could just offer those two authors $100 to waive their licence terms" nope. Thanks for playing.
I mean, yes, it's technically *possible* that the editors have a copy of the article on their hard drive, and can re-license it to OUP for this purpose. But most likely, they are getting it from Wikipedia, receiving it under CC-BY-SA, and then trying to re-license in a manner incompatible with that license. I'm guessing most editors don't store their work locally just in case some closed publishing house wants to come back later and ask for a re-licensed version.
"it isn't the WMF legal team who could sue because WMF do not own the text" I guess so.
"at most the chapter by those authors would be released under a free licence" OK, sure.
"they could just offer those two authors $100 to waive their licence terms" nope. Thanks for playing.
I mean, yes, it's technically *possible* that the editors have a copy of the article on their hard drive, and can re-license it to OUP for this purpose. But most likely, they are getting it from Wikipedia, receiving it under CC-BY-SA, and then trying to re-license in a manner incompatible with that license. I'm guessing most editors don't store their work locally just in case some closed publishing house wants to come back later and ask for a re-licensed version.
Is your "pretend lawyers'" comment a self-critique? What does storing work locally have to do with anything?