Wikipedia:Foldoc license

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Subject: Re: Incorporate Foldoc content into Wikipedia?
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> your requirement of presenting your copyright notice with every
> entry would cause trouble.  Would it be possible to get a version of
> FOLDOC under GNU FDL?

Your question has thrown me into a quandary.  I had not seen Wikipedia
before.  It is so close in spirit and function to the new FOLDOC
software I am working on that I am wondering whether I should continue
with FOLDOC at all or whether I shouldn't just redirect all effort to
Wikipedia.  Can you think of any reason to keep it separate?

In the short term, I am more than happy for you to add FOLDOC's
content to Wikipedia and hereby release it under GNU FDL.

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Denis Howe <dbh at obscured5.doc.ic.ac.uk>
Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
http://www.foldoc.org/

See also: Wikipedia:GNU Free Documentation License resources