User talk:Panic2k4/EFFLetter

= Copy of the Fax sent to Jimmy Wales and the letter/e-mail to the EFF =

I couldn't find an easy way to appeal to a higher instance on a, well, so simple case but at the very core of the Wikibooks community, since the other proper channels can't seem to provide a solution. I'm sorry to disturb you on such a simple case but your input should be given on the subject and for once help to finish this sort of disputes. I'm willing to help writing a clear policy that would standardize the GFDL and copyright problems at Wikibooks. Please consider that I don't claim sole ownership, sole say on any of the content but only the protection of my and others contributions to several works that have been placed under the GFDL on Wikibooks. I'm sending a copy of the letter sent to the EFF.

Hello,

I'm writing to you about a problem, that, we as a community are having on Wikibooks dealing with the legality of the authorship and the GFDL requirements taking in consideration the changes done to the license by Wikibooks (http://en.wikibooks.org).

(Wikibooks:GNU Free Documentation License http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License)

(Wikibooks:Copyrights http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Copyrights)

1) I'm an author of the C++ Programming book. There is a page (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/C%2B%2B_Programming/TOC2/Print_Version) that is intended to make a derived copy of this work and that intentionally removes the list of authors that contributed and books that have been used as references. Even considering the changes from the Wikibooks GFDL version, and adaptations needed to a Wiki platform, it clearly violates the GFDL license, and my rights as an author that in the original version are granted to the EFF under the GFDL.

(see discussion page http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Talk:C%2B%2B_Programming/TOC2/Print_Version )

2) There seems to be a misconception on Wikibooks as to what an author is (probably due to the close relation to Wikipedia). We, as a community, would benefit greatly from any contribution from the EFF, as repository of those rights, that would help us establish local policies that might help to clarify these questions.

Thank you in advance for any help you might provide... Panic (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User:Panic2k4)

PS: English is not my native language, so please take that in consideration if I fail to be clear on any aspect. I will gladly provide any further clarifications you might find necessary.

Update - The emails that I've sent to EFF to mailto:information@eff.org are being returned with the error:

I have yet to ask the webmaster for information regarding that address that it is posted on their page, if that fails, Ill try EFF-Europe, as for the FAX I don't have at the moment a receipt that it has reached it's destination and probably will resend it in another way after the email reaches it's destination...--Panic 06:53, 2 November 2006 (UTC)