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It's legal, but is it a good idea?
Okay, I've unprotected the main index page for Hebrews (and for all the other books of the Bible)
----== songs and lyrics ==
I'm not sure where to post this info, so I thought that it'd fit here.
Thanks,
[[User:Prab|Prab]]
 
== copying articles from wikipedia ==
There seem to be tons of articles on wikipedia for Christian subjects. Are there any problems in copying these over to here? Any legal ramifications or anything?
----''No, all wikipedia's content is licensed under [[GNU FDL]] and can feeely redistributed as long as you say the source.'' Any easy way to port them over here? I'm thinking mainly of the historic and factual entries such as the ones on all the different denominations. ''Yes, it's perfectly legal to copy any or every wikipedia article -- see the [[GNU FDL]] for details, and [http://openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=Copies_of_Wikipedia_content OpenFacts] for examples of other web sites doing just that.''''However, is copying -- or more accurately, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forking forking] -- really a good idea? I think that for historical facts where we think Wikipedia has gotten it right, we might as well leave it there and just link to it.''''Obviously I'm a big fan of http://CommunityWiki.org/ConsolidateInformation . I'm willing to grant that it may be a good idea for *some* articles to be copied over, to gain http://CommunityWiki.org/ProductiveWikiOverlap . But not *every* article on "Christian subjects". --[[User:DavidCary|DavidCary]] 22:10, 15 Apr 2005 (PDT)''
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