> Approximately 50% of the Wiki entry is *exactly* the same as the
> document I wrote. Yes, the Wiki may one day become a collective work,
> but currently the following Wiki entry is fairly obviously not a
> collective work.
> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Table_partitioning
[...]
> Your attitude to this is quite remarkable and worrying. I have checked
> the source code examples you have used also and Google says these come
> directly from copyrighted Oracle documentation. You haven't even changed
> the names of datatypes to PostgreSQL ones.
> http://download-east.oracle.com/docs/cd/B13789_01/server.101/b10736/parpart.htm
>
> I strongly doubt you will be able to persuade Oracle that the PostgreSQL
> Wiki is a "collective work" and that they deserve no credit for their
> *copyrighted* work.
For what it's worth, I think Simon is right on target here. There is
no value at all in taking two documents written by other people and
slamming them together without adding any significant original
content, or even attributing the authors. And it is never wise to do
something openly illegal with content that belongs to an $80B company.
...Robert