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1. claudeb (claudeb)'s status on Monday, 17-Dec-2012 03:49:04 EST claudeb

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   E.g. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Phoenix_on_the_Sword is marked as being public domain... and !CC-BY-SA at the same time! How come?
   • mlinksva (mlinksva)'s status on Monday, 17-Dec-2012 11:47:09 EST mlinksva

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     • claudeb
     @claudeb you mean the CC-BY-SA site footer? I don't think that's intentional copyfraud, but MediaWiki limitation. Maybe footer ought explain
   • mlinksva (mlinksva)'s status on Monday, 17-Dec-2012 11:49:05 EST mlinksva

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     • maiki
     @maiki did you tell me you found an extension to change license notice in site theme per article? also see identi.ca/conversation/97586787
   • claudeb (claudeb)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Dec-2012 03:14:06 EST claudeb

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     • mlinksva
     Never mind the MediaWiki site footer. What about the much more explicit license notice in downloaded ePUB files?
   • arnebab (arnebab)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Dec-2012 09:48:00 EST arnebab

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     • claudeb
     @claudeb as long as its license is by-sa compatible, they are free to give you the whole work under by-sa (but must keep the notices)…
   • arnebab (arnebab)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Dec-2012 09:48:33 EST arnebab

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     • claudeb
     @claudeb if anything is public domain, it is free-to-shoot anyway: They don’t even have to say that it is public domain…
   • claudeb (claudeb)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Dec-2012 12:20:33 EST claudeb

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     • arnebab
     Thanks for the clarifications; it makes sense now. But damn if copyright isn't a confused mess, and getting worse by the day.
   • mlinksva (mlinksva)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Dec-2012 12:24:35 EST mlinksva

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     • claudeb
     @claudeb I haven't looked at the ePUB version. File a bug or patch, complain on talk page. :)
   • mlinksva (mlinksva)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Dec-2012 12:30:44 EST mlinksva

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     • arnebab
     @arnebab don't have to say it's public domain, but OTOH, claiming (c) on such is essence of copyfraud. Adaptation another story of course.
   • arnebab (arnebab)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Dec-2012 12:36:57 EST arnebab

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     • mlinksva
     @mlinksva but they don’t have to talk about the public-domain parts. They can just not include a PD license note *and* a by-sa for the rest