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A comment on Chris Anderson's Free Contains Apparent Plagiarism. Parent comment

Re:Chris Anderson's Free Contains Apparent Plagiarism by pj on Wednesday June 24, 2009 @01:02AM (#671602)
So if he had said, "I got this from this wikipedia article," then his book would also have been ShareAlike?

Maybe he didn't want that... I don't understand really, did he think no one would find out? What is his response? I looked on thelongtail.com but don't see anything.

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Re:Chris Anderson's Free Contains Apparent Plagiarism by gojomo on Wednesday June 24, 2009 @02:01AM (#671673)
No. Only if he says, "I license my work under copyleft/ShareAlike", is it under ShareAlike.

Anderson's response is quoted at the end of the article.

Roughly he says: "Whoops, we copied it by mistake, it should have been quoted or rewritten. We'll correct online and in future printings."

It doesn't in any way change his copyright/license. (He may very well offer the book for free, given his schtick, but there's no automatic compulsion to. And if you copied his work without permission, you couldn't argue "but he did the same thing" or "he accidentally gave me permission".)

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