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  Re: Beta 23 benchmarked on a wide variety of chips  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 15 Jan 2009 08:51:01
Message: <496f3f44@news.povray.org>
Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>> Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
>>> and if you check you will find the wikipedia
>>> article simply includes some paragraphs from the papers.
>> 
>> Hmm is that legal? What are the usual terms of use for academic papers?
> 
> As the state the source, it is just legal quoting. It is bad style though.

Don't they need permission to relicense the academic paper text as GFDL?

Maybe not if it's clear it's a literal quote (ie. with quote marks).


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