Posts Tagged ‘wikipedia’

Would contributing information to Wikipedia be considered a source of open source IT or anything like volunteering? etc?
thanks

GNU Free Documentation License and GNU Free Documentation License

Would copying a definition from Wikipedia and publishing it on my website be illegal? I don’t fully understand the whole GNU distribution thing. I would of course link back to the definition on wikipedia, but I would prefer to keep users on my own website instead of making them go to wikipedia to read the definition.

So I’ve started my own Wikipedia, and was wondering if I can use other Wikipedia articles in my encyclopedia. Wikipedia and most other wikipedia-clones use the GNU Free documentation license. Anybody know anything about this? Thanks in advance!

When it says this:

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License"

Does it mean I can’t use them?

According to Wikipedia.org, there are some who consider them the same, and some who consider them the came. Also, to be the latter, you must have a "computer engineering"degree (real name, if wrong, eludes me at the moment) as opposed to a "computer science" degree, which would enable you to be the former.

What’s the difference (layman’s terms please) and which degrees do I need because I previously thought they were the same was planning on going to college for a "Computer science" degree to be a programmer, but soft engineering sounds like something I’d want to do instead.

Help please!

"gnu is not unix" is a parital answer. It answers the N and the U in the recursive acronym GNU. Where does the G originate?
In other words why is it not an F or an R or any other letter?
Not Unix explains the N and the U
Ive read the entire Wikipedia entry on recursive acronyms and the entry on GNU. They explain everything about the N and the U but no one can tell me why the recursive acronym STARTS with a G.
JJ thats an answer. Thats all I wanted to know. Why didnt someone just say that?

What Open Source license are out there but prohibits commercial use (in my terms, making profit off of a software) of it?
Hey smart guys, GPL explicitly states that commercial distribution/use is allowed. Even Wikipedia states it.
Maybe I should have made this clearer. By commercial, I mean for use as an product that can be sold.

Because wikipedia is open source, I can modify anything I want. But what happens if someone deletes, adds bad content, modifies useful content ? What does wikipedia do to prevent that ?

The last question is available for any other open source software: linux, php etc. How do they know which contribution is useful and which is harmful ?
Thank you.

I would like to copy entire Wikipedia.org articles and post to my site for helpful, related content.

How do I convert wiki pages into html, and get it to work on my site, links, photos and all?

Thank you!