[sdiy] Synth DIY Wiki

[Thomas Strathmann]

Am 7/20/10 22:14 , schrieb Walker Shurlds:
> I'd imagine we can copy-paste from Wikipedia for a rough starting
> point for several articles, but I'm not sure about the legal side of
> things. Do you know if Wikipedia's copyright status and yours are
> compatible in that way?
>
> From: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use
> This line is what I'm not sure about: "Copyleft/Share Alike: If you
> make modifications or additions to the page you re-use, you must
> license them under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License
> 3.0 or later."

That's a point I have not given any thought yet. The information at 
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ suggests that what you 
want to do could be done in much the same way as writing a paper which 
containes literal quotes from other sources. Just state the source of 
each part that is copy/pasted.

> More to the point, the article for "state variable filter" gives a bit
> of good mathmatics and has the KHN biquad as the example implementation.
> It would only need a little bit of editing to add "OTA-C or
> OTA-integrator cell goes HERE", etc.

Rather than copy whole parts of Wikipedia articles I would suggest 
linking to them and if the additions that one wants to make are of 
sufficiently general interest add those on Wikipedia. I do not like the 
idea of "forking" Wikipedia articles because that defies the notion of a 
single source of information. On the whole I have no strong feelings 
about this issue.

	Thomas